IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Williams
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979ND015007
  • User Pedon ID: 79ND015007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0240
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48018
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 46.9108315
  • Std. Longitude: -100.6172256
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 140N
  • Range: 79W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 232 meters W and 42 meters N of the SW corner
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND015—Burleigh
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND015—Burleigh County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. A. Hill; D. V. Wroblewski; C. W. Tuve.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Williams
  • PSC - 15 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2014
  • Classifier - Perry Sullivan
  • 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: till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: rise
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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 - 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—15

    15—36

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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
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01306. common fine roots
    Bt—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01307. few fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 1275912; continuous - phpvsfiid 1275912
    Bk1—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent medium irregular lime masses; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01308. many medium soft masses of lime concentrations; few very fine roots
    Bk2—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent fine irregular lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01309. many fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few very fine roots
    C—89 to 213 centimeters (35.0 to 83.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine irregular lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 80P01310. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations