IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Heimdal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 53ND103001
  • User Pedon ID: 53ND103001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32573
  • 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: 47.7030556
  • Std. Longitude: -100.0400000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 800 feet west and 75 feet north of the south quarter corner, Section 20, T.149N., R.73W.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND103—Wells
  • MLRA: 55B—Central Black Glaciated Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.A. Mogen
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Heimdal
  • Classificaton Date - 9/16/1953
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/1953 (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

    calcic horizon

    0—36

    36—74

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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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    135

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A00229
    Bw—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry, coats and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A00230
    Bk1—36 to 74 centimeters (14.2 to 29.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) and 21 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) fine faint mottles; massive; hard, friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00231. massive structure is porous
    Bk2—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable; 25 percent fine pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00232. compact in place; moist soil has a fine network of (2.5Y 7/4 and 8/4) and a few fine prominant veins of dark red
    Bk3—89 to 119 centimeters (35.0 to 46.9 inches); 95 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and 5 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), 95 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; 1 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable; pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) carbonate threads; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00233. compact in place
    C—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); 95 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and 5 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), 95 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00234. compact in place