IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Littlemo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89ND007002
  • User Pedon ID: 89ND007002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 2500 feet south and 200 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 33, T. 138 N., R. 102 W.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND007—Billings
  • MLRA: 58C—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northeastern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Champa K. Neve
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Littlemo
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/17/1989
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: badlands
  • Landform: terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/17/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 64
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    25—43

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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

    1

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    Bw1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; 18 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    Bw2—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; 19 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    Bk1—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    Bk2—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular lime masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described;
    2C1—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; 15 percent clay; single grain; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent carbonate coats on rock fragments; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described;. Lime coats occur on undersides of pebbles.
    2C2—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; 12 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.; dry when described;. This horizon includes a lignite layer about 2 to 3 inches thick. The upper part of this horizon has about 8 to 10 percent clay.