IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stirum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: thin surface
  • User Site ID: S1967ND077002
  • User Pedon ID: S1967ND077002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 67ND077002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2829
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37408
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 46.4275000
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1408333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 134 N
  • Range: 51 W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 1810 feet W and 145 feet N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 1810 feet west and 145 feet north of southeast corner Section 7, T.134N., R.51W.; approximately 11 miles north of Wyndmere, North Dakota.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND077—Richland
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FAR—Fargo, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.L. Joos and A.F. Bahr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Natraquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Stirum
  • Classificaton Date - 12/18/2015
  • Classifier - kaa
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Totlen
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/1967
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/9/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    SCSC

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    little bluestem

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

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    natric horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    25—91

    25—64

    25—64

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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

    0

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    533

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    6.1

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    Wahpeton

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22349; moist when described;. Ap has abrupt smooth boundary, but A1 tongues into B21 below the A1p.
    Bg—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) interior, gray (5Y 6/1) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; strong very coarse prismatic structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22350; moist when described;. Very wavy to irregular boundary.
    Btkng1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1), light gray (5Y 7/1), dry; clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22351; moist when described;. Very wavy to discontinuous boundary.
    Btkng2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) and gray (5Y 6/1) and light gray (5Y 7/1), light gray (5Y 7/1) and white (5Y 8/1), dry; sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22352; moist when described;
    Bkg—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), pale yellow (5Y 8/2), dry; fine sandy loam; 21 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22353; moist when described;
    2Cg1—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), yellow (2.5Y 7/6), dry; fine sand; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct and 21 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct mottles; massive; soft, loose; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A22354; moist when described;
    2Cg2—112 to 163 centimeters (44.1 to 64.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), light gray (5Y 7/2), dry; fine sand; 3 percent light gray (5Y 7/2) medium distinct and 21 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) coarse prominent mottles; massive; loose; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A22355; moist when described;