IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vallers

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S1950ND075004

User Pedon ID: S1950ND075004

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 40A0066

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32608

User Project ID: SOUR_10-DVL17

Project Name: MLRA 55A - Barnes series - Investigation of Souris Lobe, Soil-Water Monitoring, and Map Unit Recorrelation

Print Date: 2/16/2025

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: 48.7630608

Std. Longitude: -101.5887335

Datum: WGS84

Township: 161N

Range: 85W

Section: 17

PLSS Details: Northeast quarter of northeast quarter

Map Unit: F160A—Hamlet-Souris loams, 1 to 3 percent slopes

State: North Dakota

County: ND075—Renville

MLRA: 55A—Northern Black Glaciated Plains

MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DVL—Devils Lake, North Dakota

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND075—Renville County, North Dakota

PEDON

Describers Name: C. Mogen

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciaquolls

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description

Pedon Purpose: research site

Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Vallers

PSC - 25 to 100 cm.

Classificaton Date - 2/28/2017

Classifier - Alan R. Gulsvig

Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition

Moisture Class - aquic

Moisture Subclass - typic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Hamerly

Classificaton Date - 9/19/1950

Moisture Class - udic

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: yes

Certification Status: certified

QC Status: level 2

QA Status: not reviewed

SITE

Parent Material: till local alluvium over fine-loamy till

Landscape: till plain

Landform: depression on ground moraine

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: concave

Drainage Class: poorly

Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 9/19/1950 (actual site observation date)

Data Collector: Mogen

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

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
mollic epipedon calcic horizon redox depletions with chroma 2 or less redox concentrations	0—25 13—91 13—152 13—152	—25— —78— —- —-

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	—	—	—	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loam; soft, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00469

Ak—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; loam; gray (10YR 5/1) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) and 21 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) fine mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent fine faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 7 percent fine prominent light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A00470

Bk1—25 to 71 centimeters (9.8 to 28.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine and medium distinct and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) mottles; weak and moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable; 3 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine faint light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 15 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00471

Bk2—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) fine faint and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) mottles; hard, friable; 3 percent fine distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine faint light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 3 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00472

BC—91 to 102 centimeters (35.8 to 40.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine faint mottles; very hard, firm; 1 percent fine prominent 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix and 3 percent fine faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00473

Cy1—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; loam; light gray (2.5Y 7/2) faint and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) mottles; 3 percent fine faint pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00474

Cy2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; loam; pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) faint and 1 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine mottles; 1 percent fine prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix and 3 percent fine faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 3 percent fine prominent pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00475