IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LEFOR
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89ND053113
  • User Pedon ID: 89ND053113
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • 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: 47.4880556
  • Std. Longitude: -103.2269444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 250 Feet North And 225 Feet West of th SE corner of Sec. 2, T 146, R 99.
  • State: North Dakota
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ken Thompsn
  • 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 - LEFOR
  • PSC - 23 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1989
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 165
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    argillic horizon

    0—38

    38—94

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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

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.
    B/E—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; weak fine prismatic, and weak subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), pale yellow (5Y 8/2), dry; strong very coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt2—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), pale yellow (5Y 8/2), dry; strong very coarse prismatic, and weak subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; very fine roots; distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.
    Cr—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), pale yellow (5Y 8/2), dry; fragments.