IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Perella
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1985ND005516
  • User Pedon ID: 1985ND005516
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 85ND005516
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71003
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 48.2304845
  • Std. Longitude: -99.7470652
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: No location given
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND005—Benson
  • MLRA: 55A—Northern Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND005—Benson County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Loken
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Perella
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Endoaquolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 64 to 257 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1985
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: disintegration moraine
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - wetlands
  • 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

    fibric soil materials

    0—33

    13—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

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    Ag1—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); black (N 2/0) clay loam; moderately sticky; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1652, NDSU1653; moist when described;
    OC—13 to 0 centimeters (5.1 to 0.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) peat; moderately sticky; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Ag2—33 to 142 centimeters (13.0 to 55.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sandy clay loam; moderately sticky; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1654, NDSU1655, NDSU1656, NDSU1657; wet when described;
    Cg—142 to 218 centimeters (55.9 to 85.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay loam; moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.; wet when described;