IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975ND025011
  • User Pedon ID: 1975ND025011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 75ND025011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 75ND025011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69205
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 47.3416667
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4380556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 213 feet east and 2115 feet south of the northwest corner of section 31, 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, D.O.P., MRW, LEE, and SRB
  • 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 - Chama
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/1975
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: s siltstone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/7/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    NAVI4

    PASM

    Nassella viridula

    Pascopyrum smithii

    green needlegrass

    western wheatgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—25

    25—89

    89—0

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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

    1

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0465
    Bw—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0466
    Bk—25 to 89 centimeters (9.8 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0467
    Cr1—89 to 157 centimeters (35.0 to 61.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; weathered bedrock; massive; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine salt masses and 10 percent medium irregular lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0468
    Cr2—157 to 279 centimeters (61.8 to 109.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) weathered bedrock; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # NDSU0469