IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Savage
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 54ND089003
  • User Pedon ID: 54ND089003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 54ND089003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0098
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32640
  • 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: 46.7630556
  • Std. Longitude: -102.7055556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.2 mile north and 150 feet east of northwest corner Section 20, T.138N., R.95W.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND089—Stark
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.A. Mogen
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Savage
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/1954
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ARFR4

    BOGR2

    BUDA

    CAFI

    KOELE

    PASM

    PEAR6

    Artemisia frigida

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Carex filifolia

    Koeleria

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Pediomelum argophyllum

    prairie sagewort

    blue grama

    buffalograss

    threadleaf sedge

    Junegrass

    western wheatgrass

    silverleaf Indian breadroot

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    cambic horizon

    0—28

    8—66

    66—81

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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

    4

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    315

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; weak fine platy structure; soft, very friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A00699; dry when described;
    A2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00700; dry when described;
    Bw1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A00701; dry when described;
    Bw2—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; moderate medium prismatic parts to angular blocky structure; very hard, friable; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00702; dry when described;
    Bw3—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; moderate medium prismatic parts to angular blocky structure; very hard, friable; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, coats; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A00703; dry when described;
    Bw4—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; weak coarse prismatic structure; very hard, friable; black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry, coats; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A00704; dry when described;
    Bk—81 to 135 centimeters (31.9 to 53.1 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1) and olive gray (5Y 5/2) and white (5Y 8/1), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, friable; 25 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate threads; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A00705; dry when described;. In this horizon there is a heavy lime seam.
    C—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), light gray (5Y 7/2), dry; yellow (10YR 7/6) mottles; strong very fine and fine angular blocky structure; very hard, friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00706; dry when described;