IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Max
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 58ND013003
  • User Pedon ID: 58ND013003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0072
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32614
  • Print Date: 5/9/2025

    • 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: 48.7197222
  • Std. Longitude: -102.3275000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.3 mile west and 150 feet south of northeast corner of Section 5, T.160N., R.90W.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND013—Burke
  • MLRA: 53A—Northern Dark Brown Glaciated Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert L. Howey
  • 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 - Max
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/1958
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/31/1958 (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—33

    48—71

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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

    1

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    579

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    381

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    3.3

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak very fine granular, and weak subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00509; moist when described;
    Bt1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry, clay films on faces of peds and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist,; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A00510; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 89869; continuous - phpvsfiid 89869
    Bt2—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry, clay films on faces of peds and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist,; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A00511; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 89871; continuous - phpvsfiid 89871
    Bk1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A00512; moist when described;
    Bk2—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00513; moist when described;
    C1—71 to 112 centimeters (28.0 to 44.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; weak angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent carbonate nodules and 1 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00514; moist when described;
    C2—112 to 137 centimeters (44.1 to 53.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; weak angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent coarse gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00515; moist when described;
    C3—137 to 168 centimeters (53.9 to 66.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; weak angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent coarse gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00516; moist when described;. Separated for sampling.