IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dogtooth
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85ND041203
  • User Pedon ID: 85ND041203
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 85ND041203
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69776
  • 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: 46.3694444
  • Std. Longitude: -102.5244444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 710 feet east and 250 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 5, T. 133 N., R. 94 W.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND041—Hettinger
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND041—Hettinger County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Ulmer, D. D. Patterson
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dogtooth
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Bedrock: s strong weathered shale, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 62
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    natric horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—25

    8—36

    64—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

    12

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    180

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    E—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); loam; weak fine platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0761. Has a few stones at lower boundary.
    Btn—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); clay loam; 37 percent clay; strong coarse columnar parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0762
    2Btn—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine salt masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0763
    2Bty1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); silty clay; 45 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 25 percent fine salt masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0764
    2Bty2—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); clay; 85 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 25 percent fine salt masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0765
    Cr1—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); weathered bedrock; 90 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 25 percent fine salt masses in cracks; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0766. Has more organic seams than Cr2. Cr horizons - shale crushes to clay.
    Cr2—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); weathered bedrock; 95 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent fine salt masses in cracks; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU0767