IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bowdle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 81ND037006
  • User Pedon ID: 81ND037006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 81ND037006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69565
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 46.0205556
  • Std. Longitude: -101.5563889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1550 feet north and 1380 feet east of the southwest corner sec, 3, T.129N. - R.87W.
  • 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. H. Thiele
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bowdle
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1981
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1981 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—58

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0688; moist when described;
    Bw—20 to 58 centimeters (7.9 to 22.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; loam; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.1 fine roots; fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0689; moist when described;
    2Bk—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 10 percent fine lime masses; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0690; dry when described;
    2C1—71 to 109 centimeters (28.0 to 42.9 inches); extremely gravelly sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 75 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0691; dry when described;
    2C2—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) gravelly sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # NDSU0692; dry when described;