IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Belfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1961ND089001
  • User Pedon ID: 1961ND089001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61ND089001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72025
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 46.6305995
  • Std. Longitude: -102.9809989
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 137 N
  • Range: 98 W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 235 feet north and 2,320 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: BoA—Belfield-Rhoades loams, levelE0453A—Daglum-Rhoades complex, 0 to 2 percent slopesE0454B—Daglum-Rhoades complex, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND089—Stark
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DIC—Dickinson, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND089—Stark County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Don Patterson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Glossic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Belfield (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 28 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/2015
  • Classifier - Heilig, Jeanne
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Belfield
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 28 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/16/1961
  • Classifier - Don Patterson
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sodium-affected clayey alluvium derived from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Sentinel Butte formation of the Fort Union group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R054XY020ND Clayey Oct 6 2015 Heilig, Jeanne
  • Other Vegetative Class: G054XY210ND - Clayey Subsoil—Forage Suitability Groups

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/16/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Patterson, Schroer, Larson, Bahr & Mogen
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    glossic horizon

    natric horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—23

    23—30

    30—61

    61—109

    —23—

    —7—

    —31—

    —48—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    821

    —

    300

    394

    —

    —

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; many very fine roots throughout; many very fine tubular pores; distinct sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0281, NDSU0282; moist when described;
    E/B—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium platy structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; many very fine roots throughout; many very fine tubular pores; distinct light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, sand coats on top faces of peds and distinct sand coats on bottom faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0283; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 572983; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 572984; continuous - phpvsfiid 572983; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 572984
    Btn1—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; common fine roots between peds; many very fine tubular pores; distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), dry, clay films on all faces of peds and distinct sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0285, NDSU0284; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 572985; continuous - phpvsfiid 572985
    Btn2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; few fine roots between peds; many fine tubular pores; faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0286; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 572987; continuous - phpvsfiid 572987
    Bk1—61 to 78 centimeters (24.0 to 30.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; few very fine roots throughout; many very fine tubular and many fine tubular pores; fine threadlike weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0287; dry when described;
    Bk2—78 to 109 centimeters (30.7 to 42.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; few very fine roots throughout; many fine tubular pores; fine threadlike weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry, carbonate masses throughout and medium irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0288; dry when described;
    C—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay loam; structureless massive; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; few very fine roots throughout; common fine tubular pores; fine threadlike weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and fine irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and medium gypsum crystal clusters throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU0290, NDSU0289; dry when described;