IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83ND033176
  • User Pedon ID: 83ND033176
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83ND033176
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 83ND033176
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73004
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 47.2672222
  • Std. Longitude: -103.9055556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1900 feet west and 590 feet south of the NE corner of sec.30, T.144N., R.104W.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND033—Golden Valley
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND033—Golden Valley County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F.P. Aziz
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sen
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/1983
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: s strong weathered sandstone and siltstone
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    HECOC8

    PASM

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Pascopyrum smithii

    blue grama

    needle and thread

    western wheatgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—33

    15—33

    66—0

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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

    6

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.1 very fine pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0833; dry when described;. Top 1 inch is moist.
    Bw—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0832; dry when described;
    Bk—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 25 percent medium lime masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0831; dry when described;
    C—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; silt loam; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.1 very fine pores; 10 percent medium lime masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0830; dry when described;. This horizon is soft siltstone.
    Cr—66 to 152 centimeters (26.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/4) and yellow (10YR 7/8), dry; weathered bedrock; 0.1 very fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # NDSU0829; dry when described;