IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bowbells
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977ND023004
  • User Pedon ID: 77ND023004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0267
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45821
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024
  • 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: 48.6372223
  • Std. Longitude: -103.9649963
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 160N
  • Range: 103W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 SW 1/4
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND023—Divide
  • MLRA: 53A—Northern Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L Joos D. Grabe L. DesLauriers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Pachic Argiborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bowbells
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bowbells
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1977 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—40

    20—40

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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

    1Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dry; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P01341. many roots
    1B2t—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 roots; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many roots
    1C1—40 to 73 centimeters (15.7 to 28.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 roots; 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common roots
    1C2—73 to 85 centimeters (28.7 to 33.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; loam; 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. common medium soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine faint 10YR44 mottles
    1C3ca—85 to 152 centimeters (33.5 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; loam; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 11 percent medium lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. common medium soft masses of lime concentrations; many fine faint 10YR54 mottles