IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arnegard
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975ND025006
  • User Pedon ID: 1975ND025006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1975ND025006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 75ND025006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69041
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 47.4477778
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4869444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 144N
  • Range: 94W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1,990 feet south and 430 feet east of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: 4B—Arnegard loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesE2107B—Arnegard loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Robert Wright
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arnegard
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2014
  • Classifier - Heilig, Jeanne
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arnegard
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Haploborolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/1975
  • Classifier - M. Robert Wright
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium derived from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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 Heilig, Jeanne
  • Other Vegetative Class: G054XY100ND - Loam—Forage Suitability Groups

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/30/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: M. Robert Wright
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    KOMA

    KOMA

    NAVI4

    PASM

    PASM

    STVI4

    Koeleria macrantha

    Koeleria macrantha

    Nassella viridula

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Stipa viridula

    prairie Junegrass

    prairie Junegrass

    green needlegrass

    western wheatgrass

    western wheatgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—84

    84—107

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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

    4

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    686

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    225

    394

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; many very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; many very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0434; slightly moist when described;
    A2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; many very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout; many very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0435; slightly moist when described;
    Bw1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; common very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout; many very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0436; slightly moist when described;
    Bw2—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; common very fine roots throughout; many very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0437; slightly moist when described;
    Bw3—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; few very fine roots throughout; many very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0438; slightly moist when described;
    C1—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; few very fine roots throughout; many very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0439; slightly moist when described;
    C2—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; few very fine roots throughout; many very fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-38-76 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU0440; slightly moist when described;