IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arnegard
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005ND089-002
  • User Pedon ID: S05ND089-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005ND089-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0409
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17550
  • 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: 46.9352760
  • Std. Longitude: -103.0872192
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 139N
  • Range: 96W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: Northwest quarter
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND089—Stark
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46102-H7—Dickinson North, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Larry Edland, John Kempenich, Manuel Matos, Melissa Matos, Kristin Wild
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arnegard
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/2008
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arnegard
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Hapl
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium derived from mudstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 71
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 32
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGCR

    ARFR4

    BOGR2

    NAVI4

    SPCR

    Agropyron cristatum

    Artemisia frigida

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Nassella viridula

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    crested wheatgrass

    prairie sagewort

    blue grama

    green needlegrass

    sand dropseed

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—150

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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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    753

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    315

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    ND2183

    Dickinson

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 20.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 5.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N01513; observed in trench
    A—17 to 41 centimeters (6.7 to 16.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01514; observed in trench
    Bw1—41 to 74 centimeters (16.1 to 29.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 12.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 40 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, and very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01515; observed in trench
    Bw2—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01516; observed in trench
    Bw3—94 to 134 centimeters (37.0 to 52.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; sandy clay loam; 24 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 20 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N01517; observed in trench
    BC—134 to 150 centimeters (52.8 to 59.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), dry; sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01518; observed in trench
    C—150 centimeters (59.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy clay loam; 23 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 25 percent medium irregular black (10YR 2/1), moist, salt, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in trench