IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parshall
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979ND015002
  • User Pedon ID: 79ND015002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1979ND015002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0235
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48013
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 46.8533333
  • Std. Longitude: -100.5466667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 5 miles east and 2 miles north of Bismarck. 1305 feet west and 505 feet north of the southeast corner, Section 15, T.130N., R.79W.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND015—Burleigh
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-BIS—Bismarck, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D.V. Wroblewski, C.W. Tuve, and R.A. Hill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Parshall
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/28/2014
  • Classifier - Kyle Thomson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands
  • Landscape: plains
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    CALO

    NAVI4

    SCSC

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Calamovilfa longifolia

    Nassella viridula

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    blue grama

    prairie sandreed

    green needlegrass

    little bluestem

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—66

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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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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P1277; dry when described;
    Bw1—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P1278; dry when described;
    Bw2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P1279; dry when described;
    C1—66 to 140 centimeters (26.0 to 55.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P1280
    C2—140 to 211 centimeters (55.1 to 83.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # 80P1281; moist when described;