IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Straw
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 58ND089002
  • User Pedon ID: 58ND089002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 58ND089002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0115
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32657
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 46.8911111
  • Std. Longitude: -102.6391667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 950 feet east and 400 feet north of southwest corner, Section 36, T.140N., R.95W.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND089—Stark
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K.E. Larson
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Straw
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/1958
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/1958 (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

    NAVI4

    PASM

    Nassella viridula

    Pascopyrum smithii

    green needlegrass

    western wheatgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—48

    48—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

    1

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00827; moist when described;
    Bw1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00828; moist when described;
    Bw2—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00829; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 89766; patchy - phpvsfiid 89766
    Bw3—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00830; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 89767; patchy - phpvsfiid 89767
    Bw4—48 to 53 centimeters (18.9 to 20.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; sandy loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00831; moist when described;
    Bw5—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00832; moist when described;
    Bk—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive (5Y 5/3), dry; loam; weak angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 25 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate threads; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00833; moist when described;
    C1—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), olive (5Y 5/3), dry; sandy loam; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate threads; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00834
    C2—127 to 137 centimeters (50.0 to 53.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), olive (5Y 5/3), dry; sandy loam; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00835
    C3—137 to 147 centimeters (53.9 to 57.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; loam; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00836
    C4—147 to 160 centimeters (57.9 to 63.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), pale yellow (5Y 7/3), dry; silt loam; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.