IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Flaxton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 81ND043171
  • User Pedon ID: 81ND043171
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 81ND043171
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69354
  • 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: 46.6727778
  • Std. Longitude: -99.9594444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1,440 feet south and 1,340 feet west of the NE corner of sec. 24, T. 137 N., R. 74 W.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND043—Kidder
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND043—Kidder County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DP, JT, AM, DW, HJ, JA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Flaxton
  • PSC - 53 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/22/2017
  • Classifier - Sullivan
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/28/1981 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—69

    53—69

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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

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0187; dry when described;
    Bw—15 to 53 centimeters (5.9 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0188; dry when described;
    2Bt—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular lime masses throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0189; dry when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 91448; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 91448
    2Bk—69 to 117 centimeters (27.2 to 46.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 25 percent medium spherical lime masses throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0190; dry when described;
    2C—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; loam; 1 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) fine prominent mottles; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU0191; dry when described;. 2C has relict mottles