IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Williams
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987ND083424
  • User Pedon ID: 87ND083424
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0563
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59858
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 47.4052773
  • Std. Longitude: -100.4266663
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 145N
  • Range: 77W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 2568 feet W and 1930 feet N of SE corner
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND083—Sheridan
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.J. Heidt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 424
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Williams
  • PSC - 15 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2014
  • Classifier - Sullivan
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: rise
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—36

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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

    3

    614

    45

    4.6

    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; loam; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02987. 25% clay.; few very fine roots
    Bt—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02988. 28% clay.; common clay films surface features; few very fine roots
    Bk—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 87P02989. 25% clay.; few very fine roots