IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reeder
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 78ND037020
  • User Pedon ID: 78ND037020
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 78ND037020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 78ND037020
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68976
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 46.1255556
  • Std. Longitude: -101.7177778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2,505 feet south and 2,430 feet west of the NE corner of sec. 32, T. 131 N., R. 88 W.
  • 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: L. Edland, D. Moos
  • 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 - Reeder
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1978 (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

    BOGR2

    KOELE

    NAVI4

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Koeleria

    Nassella viridula

    blue grama

    Junegrass

    green needlegrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—18

    13—64

    94—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

    5

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0537; dry when described;
    Bw1—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), dry; loam; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0538; dry when described;
    Bw2—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0539; dry when described;
    Bw3—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0540; dry when described;
    Bk—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 10 percent medium irregular lime masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0541; dry when described;
    Cr—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; weathered bedrock; massive; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU0542; dry when described;. Cr is soft fine-grained sandstone that crushes to fine sand