IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Desart
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962ND037001
  • User Pedon ID: 62ND037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62ND037001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70704
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 46.0961111
  • Std. Longitude: -101.3300000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 133N
  • Range: 83W
  • Section: 15
  • Location Description: 1,584 feet west and 710 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND037—Grant
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND037—Grant County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Bahr
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Desart
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1962
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium derived from sandstone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Geology: Hell Creek formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: F. Bahr
  • Air Photo ID: 68
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    albic horizon

    natric horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—43

    43—64

    64—76

    122—0

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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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    45

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0272, NDSU0273; moist when described;
    A2—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0274; moist when described;
    E1—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak thick platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0275; moist when described;
    E2—56 to 64 centimeters (22.0 to 25.2 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), gray (2.5Y 6/1), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0276; moist when described;
    Btn—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; strong coarse columnar structure; extremely hard, firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots between peds; faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and sand coats on tops of soil columns; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0277; dry when described;. Clear sand grains on faces of columns in the upper 1 inch in Btn.
    Bk—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), light gray (5Y 7/2), dry; loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent fine carbonate threads and 10 percent medium noncoherent cemented lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0278; dry when described;
    C—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), light gray (5Y 7/2), dry; weathered bedrock; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0279; dry when described;
    Cr—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; weathered bedrock; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU0280; dry when described;