IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aberdeen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980ND071069
  • User Pedon ID: S1980ND071069
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 80ND071069
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70360
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 48.1080556
  • Std. Longitude: -98.8183333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 154N.
  • Range: 64W.
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 98 feet north and 1,814 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: About 1 mile east of Devils lake, ND.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND071—Ramsey
  • MLRA: 55A—Northern Black Glaciated Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DVL—Devils Lake, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND071—Ramsey County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Thiele, D. Patterson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Natrudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aberdeen
  • PSC - 13 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2018
  • Classifier - Alan R. Gulsvig
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aberdeen
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    natric horizon

    gypsum accumulations

    0—38

    13—38

    38—107

    —38—

    —25—

    —69—
    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 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1255; moist when described;
    Btn—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay; strong very fine and fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1256; moist when described;. Tongues of A material extend through this horizon.
    By—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 fine roots; very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine spherical gypsum masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1257; moist when described;
    BC—56 to 102 centimeters (22.0 to 40.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) crushed, dry; silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1258; moist when described;
    Cy—102 to 137 centimeters (40.2 to 53.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silty clay loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent fine irregular gypsum masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU1259; moist when described;