IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grail
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 58ND089008
  • User Pedon ID: 58ND089008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0092
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32634
  • Print Date: 4/18/2025

    • 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: 46.8188889
  • Std. Longitude: -102.1263889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 150 feet south and .45 mile west of northeast corner of Section 35, T.139N., R.91W.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND089—Stark
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K.E. Larson
  • 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 - Grail
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/1958
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—64

    5—64

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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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    180

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00658; moist when described;
    Bt1—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), olive gray (5Y 4/2), dry; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00659; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 90557; patchy - phpvsfiid 90557
    Bt2—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), dark gray (5Y 4/1), dry; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; black (5Y 2/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00660; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 90558; patchy - phpvsfiid 90558
    Btk—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 25 percent noncoherent cemented pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) carbonate threads; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00661; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 90559; patchy - phpvsfiid 90559
    Bk—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); olive (5Y 4/3), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.1 roots; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00662; moist when described;
    C1—79 to 112 centimeters (31.1 to 44.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.1 roots; 10 percent coarse pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00663; moist when described;
    C2—112 to 157 centimeters (44.1 to 61.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark gray (5Y 4/1), dry; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots; 1 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00664; moist when described;