IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grail
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977ND001017
  • User Pedon ID: 1977ND001017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 77ND001017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69402
  • 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: 45.9627385
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4058220
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1,340 feet north and 2,080 feet east of the southwest corner of section 26, T. 129 N., R. 94 W.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND001—Adams
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND001—Adams County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FW, JC, RL
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grail
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/1977
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/1977 (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

    0—56

    23—56

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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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    765

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0382; moist when described;. It is suspected that this pedon is sodium influenced. Although this pedon lacks the interfingering and tongueing characteristics of Belfield soils, it does not seem to be as severely influenced by sodium as a Daglum soil (Typic Natriboroll).
    A—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0383; moist when described;
    Bt1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 60 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0384; moist when described;
    Bt2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 60 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate threads; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0385; moist when described;
    Bk1—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0386; moist when described;
    Bk2—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 25 percent fine lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0387; moist when described;
    C1—91 to 119 centimeters (35.8 to 46.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 10 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0388; dry when described;
    C2—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 10 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU0389; dry when described;