IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975ND025001
  • User Pedon ID: 1975ND025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 75ND025001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69617
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 47.3007083
  • Std. Longitude: -102.5480750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 144N
  • Range: 94W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 210 feet west and 140 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Site located about 3 and one half miles east and 3 miles south of Dunn Center, Dunn County, North Dakota
  • Map Unit: 101B—Amor-Shambo loams, 3 to 6 percent slopesE2803B—Amor-Shambo loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND025—Dunn
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DIC—Dickinson, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND025—Dunn County, North Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47102-C5—Dunn Center, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Robert Wright
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amor
  • PSC - 25 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2012
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Amor
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy residuum weathered from siltstone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent siltstone, unspecified at 86cm
  • Geology: Sentinel Butte formation of the Fort Union group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R054XY031ND Loamy Oct 3 2014
  • Other Vegetative Class: G054XY120ND - Droughty Loam—Forage Suitability Groups

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: M. Robert Wright
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    86 - 200

    - 114 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—33

    33—53

    86—200

    —33—

    —20—

    —114—
    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

    4

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    695

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    180

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    ND2183

    Dickinson

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bw1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 20 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bw2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary.
    BC—53 to 86 centimeters (20.9 to 33.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.
    Cr—86 to 200 centimeters (33.9 to 78.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; weathered bedrock; 1.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent medium irregular lime masses; 1 percent by volume unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.