IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grail
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975ND025002
  • User Pedon ID: 1975ND025002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 75ND025002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72536
  • 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: 47.3455556
  • Std. Longitude: -102.3755556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1,050 feet north and 150 feet west of the SE corner of sec. 27, T. 145 N., R. 92 W.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND025—Dunn
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND025—Dunn County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FS, SRB, DDP, MRW, LEE
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grail
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/1975
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: s strong weathered sandstone and shale
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/1975 (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

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—109

    23—66

    109—152

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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

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0408; moist when described;
    Bt—23 to 66 centimeters (9.1 to 26.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0409; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 91390; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 91390
    Ab—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; massive; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0410; moist when described;
    BCk—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; clay loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent medium irregular lime masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0411; moist when described;
    Cr—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); weathered bedrock; massive; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # NDSU0412, NDSU0413. Cr is soft, variegated and stratified, weathered sandstone and shale