IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sahkahtay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MN0073420
  • User Pedon ID: S1980MN0073420
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN3420
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50784
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 48.4504547
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2621231
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 157N
  • Range: 36W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 650 feet south and 1990 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN007—Beltrami
  • MLRA: 88—Northern Minnesota Glacial Lake Basins
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-BEM—Bemidji, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN007—Beltrami County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48095-D3—Gates Corner, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Michael Oja
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Mollic Endoaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sahkahtay
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sahkahtay
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and gravelly lacustrine deposits
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/10/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    Oe—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN342001
    E—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loamy coarse sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN342002
    Btg—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) sandy clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent fine faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent fine prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 6 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN342003
    Cg1—30 to 81 centimeters (11.8 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) coarse sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 12 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN342004
    Cg2—81 to 130 centimeters (31.9 to 51.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) coarse sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent fine faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.
    Cg3—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sand; single grain; loose; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # MN342005