IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Metigoshe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978ND009108
  • User Pedon ID: S1978ND009108
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 78ND009108
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69160
  • User Project ID: C2015 - 15006
  • Project Name: SDJR - MLRA 55A and 55B - Bottineau, Kelvin, Metigoshe and Rolla (Alfic Argiudolls and Vertic Hapludalfs)
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 48.9773710
  • Std. Longitude: -100.3933270
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 163N.
  • Range: 75W.
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet south and 2400 feet east of the NW corner
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND009—Bottineau
  • MLRA: 55A—Northern Black Glaciated Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DVL—Devils Lake, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND009—Bottineau County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GM, FS, JT, DP, SS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, superactive, frigid Alfic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Metigoshe
  • PSC - 20 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/16/2015
  • Classifier - Alan R. Gulsvig
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Metigoshe
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/1978
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium and/or sandy and gravelly alluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: collapsed outwash plain on moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    20—28

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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

    4

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine to medium roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1054
    Bt—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3), dry; coarse sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 60 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1055. patchy - phpvsfiid 91416; patchy - phpvsfiid 91416
    2BC—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1056
    2C—38 to 152 centimeters (15.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; gravelly sand, stratified loamy sand, gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU1057