IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Flasher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 81ND037001
  • User Pedon ID: 81ND037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 81ND037001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72009
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.4302778
  • Std. Longitude: -101.4650000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1110 feet north and 195 feet west of the southeast corner of sec.3, T. 134N., R. 86W.
  • 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: J. Thiele
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Flasher
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/1981
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: knob
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Bedrock: sandstone, calcareous
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    paralithic contact

    0—8

    23—152

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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

    17

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.3 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0674; moist when described;
    C—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.3 fine and medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume angular sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0675; moist when described;
    Cr1—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; weathered bedrock; massive; 0.5 fine and medium roots in cracks; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0676; dry when described;
    Cr2—53 to 152 centimeters (20.9 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; weathered bedrock; massive; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU0677; dry when described;