IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Livona
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73ND057001
  • User Pedon ID: 73ND057001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 73ND057001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71818
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 47.2450000
  • Std. Longitude: -101.6227778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 144N
  • Range: 86W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 1320 feet north and 1420 feet west of the SE corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND057—Mercer
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND057—Mercer County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Schroer, P. Weiser, D. Vanderbusch
  • 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
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Livona
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/1973
  • Classifier - Thomson
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: till plain
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/1973 (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

    0—23

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0548
    BA—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; fine sandy loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0549. Tongues of very dark greyish brown (10yr 3/2) in upper part.
    2Bt—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; clay loam; strong medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.1 medium and 3.0 fine pores; faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0550. A few large Krotovina and tongues (or filled cracks) of fine sand loam in the 2Bt; continuous - phpvsfiid 91365; patchy - phpvsfiid 91366; continuous - phpvsfiid 91365; patchy - phpvsfiid 91366
    2BCk—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.1 medium and 0.5 fine pores; faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent medium carbonate nodules throughout and 25 percent medium threadlike carbonate threads throughout; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0551. A few large Krotovina and tongues (or filled cracks) of fine sand loam in 2BCk; patchy - phpvsfiid 91367; patchy - phpvsfiid 91367
    2C—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.1 medium and 0.5 fine pores; 10 percent coarse carbonate nodules throughout; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU0552. In the upper part of 2C horizon there are a few large Krotovina and tongues (or filled cracks) of fine sand loam