IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wahpeton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1967ND099002
  • User Pedon ID: 1967ND099002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2831
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37410
  • 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: 48.4216667
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1483333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1640 feet south and 380 feet west of the northeast corner of Section 13, T.157N., R.51W. (90 feet south of graded road and 800 feet east of fence on east side of woods); 11 1/2 miles east and 1/2 mile north of Grafton, North Dakota.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND099—Walsh
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.L. Hetzler and A.F. Bahr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Hapluderts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wahpeton
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1972
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wahpeton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Hapluderts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/11/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—160

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    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

    0

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    483

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    3.9

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; strong very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22364; moist when described;
    A—20 to 58 centimeters (7.9 to 22.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; strong medium subangular blocky parts to strong very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22366; moist when described;. Faces of peds have slick, shiny surface when moist (gray 10YR 5/1) band crosses horizon at depths of 12 to 14 inches
    C—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; strong very fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22368; moist when described;
    Assb—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); black (2.5Y 2/1), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dry; strong medium subangular blocky parts to strong very fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22369; moist when described;. slickensides on vertical faces of peds
    Css—97 to 119 centimeters (38.2 to 46.9 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 10 percent medium noncoherent cemented lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22370; moist when described;. distinct slickensides on faces of peds
    A'ssb—119 to 137 centimeters (46.9 to 53.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong very fine and fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 fine pores; 1 percent noncoherent cemented lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A22371; moist when described;. slickensides are vertical but slant to 15 degrees from vertical below dephs of 54 inches