IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mott
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 54ND089001
  • User Pedon ID: 54ND089001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 54ND089001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0128
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32670
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.8841667
  • Std. Longitude: -102.8391667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 300 feet north and 600 feet east of center Section 5, T.139N., R.96W.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND089—Stark
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain

    • 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 - Mott
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1954
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARCA13

    ARFR4

    BOGR2

    CADU6

    PEAR6

    Artemisia cana

    Artemisia frigida

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Carex duriuscula

    Pediomelum argophyllum

    silver sagebrush

    prairie sagewort

    blue grama

    needleleaf sedge

    silverleaf Indian breadroot

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

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    cambic horizon

    0—20

    20—79

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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

    3

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    135

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    A1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; weak fine platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A00923; dry when described;
    A2—4 to 14 centimeters (1.6 to 5.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; moderate coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00924; dry when described;
    Bw1—14 to 20 centimeters (5.5 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; moderate coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00925; dry when described;
    Bw2—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00926; dry when described;
    Bw3—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00927; dry when described;
    Bw4—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A00928; dry when described;. There is a band containing a few pebbles at the base of this horizon and a few pebbles in two bands above.
    C1—79 to 117 centimeters (31.1 to 46.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00929; dry when described;
    C2—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; 1 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8) fine faint and 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint mottles; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 40A00930; dry when described;