IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LEFOR
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89ND053114
  • User Pedon ID: 89ND053114
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 47.4852778
  • Std. Longitude: -103.2255556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 135 Feet East and 850 Feet Sout of the NW corner of Sec. 7, t. 146, R. 98
  • State: North Dakota
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ken Thompson
  • 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 - 15 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/1989
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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: 5/19/1989 (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—28

    28—61

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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

    2

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; weak very fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.
    B/E—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt—28 to 61 centimeters (11.0 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; strong coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 2 percent clay films; fragments; very slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 91189; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 91189
    Cr—61 to 152 centimeters (24.0 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), light gray (5Y 7/2), dry; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments.