IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rhoades
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2001ND089007
  • User Pedon ID: 2001ND089007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0770
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15261
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 46.7079722
  • Std. Longitude: -103.1884444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 137 N.
  • Range: 99 W.
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1210 feet N. and 300 feet E of the SW corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND089—Stark
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46103-F2—Daglum NW, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Champa, Jeanne Heilig, Fred Aziz & Mike Ulmer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, superactive, frigid Vertic Natrustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rhoades
  • PSC - 16 to 34 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/5/2001
  • Classifier - Tom Champa
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey alluvium derived from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: extremely weakly coherent slight weathered siltstone, calcareous at 156cm with <10
  • Geology: Sentinel Butte formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/5/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 180
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 35
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion, water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    natric

    bedrock, paralithic

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    weakly coherent

    16 - 34

    156 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    natric horizon

    0—16

    16—34

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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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    2680

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    23

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    Ap1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Ap2—4 to 16 centimeters (1.6 to 6.3 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; strong very coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated ? to 2-? millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Btknz—16 to 34 centimeters (6.3 to 13.4 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; carbonate masses in matrix and 2 percent fine irregular light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, gypsum masses throughout and 2 percent fine irregular light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, salt masses throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated ? to 2-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDDOT; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 246375; continuous - phpvsfiid 246375
    Bky—34 to 49 centimeters (13.4 to 19.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine prominent spherical brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; carbonate masses in matrix and 15 percent fine irregular light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, gypsum masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    BCyz—49 to 78 centimeters (19.3 to 30.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent coarse prominent spherical strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 1 percent fine and medium prominent spherical strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout and 10 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 25 percent fine irregular light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, gypsum masses throughout and 4 percent medium irregular light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, gypsum masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDDOT; observed in trench
    CBy1—78 to 98 centimeters (30.7 to 38.6 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 2 percent medium light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, gypsum masses infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    CBy2—98 to 134 centimeters (38.6 to 52.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 6 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 1 percent medium irregular light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, gypsum masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in trench
    2CBy—134 to 156 centimeters (52.8 to 61.4 inches); 80 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior and 20 percent gray (10YR 6/1) exterior, 80 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior and 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; massive; very hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent medium prominent irregular dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 10 percent fine prominent irregular dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 15 percent coarse prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout; 15 percent medium and coarse irregular light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, gypsum masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in trench
    Cr—156 to 200 centimeters (61.4 to 78.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in auger, bucket