IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bearden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S06ND036-001b
  • User Pedon ID: S06ND035-001b
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S06ND036-001b
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 47.8630442
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1970690
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 151N
  • Range: 51
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SE4,SE4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: ND035—Grand Forks
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MGU, JH, LEE, LD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Aeric Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bearden
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Aeric Calciaquolls
  • Classificaton Date - 8/22/2006
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/22/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 59
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    TRDU3

    Triticum durum

    durum wheat

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

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—7

    7—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

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine granular parts to weak medium cloddy structure; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in shovel slice
    Akz—18 to 40 centimeters (7.1 to 15.7 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; 2 percent fine distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) calcite crystals; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in shovel slice
    Bky1—40 to 57 centimeters (15.7 to 22.4 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; 5 percent medium and coarse distinct gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in auger, bucket
    Bky2—57 to 74 centimeters (22.4 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; 10 percent coarse distinct gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in auger, bucket
    BCy—74 to 92 centimeters (29.1 to 36.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; 10 percent medium prominent irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) iron-manganese masses; 5 percent coarse distinct gypsum masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in auger, bucket
    Cy—92 to 120 centimeters (36.2 to 47.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silt loam; 25 percent clay; 10 percent coarse prominent gray (10YR 6/1) clay depletions and 20 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) iron-manganese masses; 1 percent medium distinct gypsum masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in auger, bucket
    C—120 to 150 centimeters (47.2 to 59.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; 27 percent clay; 30 percent coarse prominent gray (10YR 6/1) clay depletions and 40 percent coarse prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) iron-manganese masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in auger, bucket