IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grail
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978ND037012
  • User Pedon ID: 1978ND037012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 78ND037012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71702
  • 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: 46.1563889
  • Std. Longitude: -101.9111111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2,000 feet south and 1,100 feet east of the NW corner of sec. 23, T. 131 N., R. 90 W.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND037—Grant
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND037—Grant County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lawrence E. Edland
  • 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 - 7/18/1978
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/18/1978 (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—61

    20—43

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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

    2

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0825; moist when described;
    Bt1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0824; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 91414; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 91414
    Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; silty clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0823; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 91415; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 91415
    Bk1—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0822; dry when described;
    Bk2—91 to 119 centimeters (35.8 to 46.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0821; dry when described;
    BCk—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # NDSU0820; dry when described;