IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Forman
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988ND091507
  • User Pedon ID: 1988ND091507
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88ND091507
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70777
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 47.3316753
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7611630
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: E1/2 of the SW1/4 of the SE1/4 of sec. 35, T. 145 N., R. 56 W.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND091—Steele
  • MLRA: 55B—Central Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND091—Steele County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Yassin
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Forman
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/1988 (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—43

    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

    11

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU2028. The Ap horizon has cloddy structure.
    Bw(Bt)—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine continuous tubular pores; organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU2029. Vertical pores are in the Bw horizon.
    BCk—43 to 84 centimeters (16.9 to 33.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 fine roots; 0.1 fine continuous tubular pores; gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU2030. Vertical pores are in the BCk horizon. Disseminated lime in the BCk horizon. Gypsum crystals localized at the lower boundary of the BCk.
    C—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 fine roots; 0.1 fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU2031. Vertical pores are in the C horizon. Clay lenses in the C horizon.