IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vallers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: saline
  • User Site ID: S1983ND063132
  • User Pedon ID: S1983ND063132
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 83ND063132
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72939
  • User Project ID: 10-BIS 2021-1-002
  • Project Name: MLRA 55A - Investigation of the Red River Lobe and Map Unit Recorrelation
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 48.1577778
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3366667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 154N.
  • Range: 60W.
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 2,340 feet north and 375 feet west of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Near northwest corner of Nelson County.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND063—Nelson
  • MLRA: 55A—Northern Black Glaciated Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DVL—Devils Lake, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND063—Nelson County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Thiele, Don Patterson, Jim Arndt, Dean Moos, Stuart Larson, CJ Heidt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • 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 - Vallers
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/8/2020
  • Classifier - Kyle Thomson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vallers
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/1983
  • Classifier - J. Thiele, D. Patterson, CJ Heidt
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Ponding: rare ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 20

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/29/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Thiele, Patterson, Arndt, Moen, Heidt, Larson
  • Air Photo ID: 1
  • 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

    free carbonates

    calcic horizon

    reduced matrix

    redox concentrations

    0—23

    0—152

    23—61

    23—152

    38—152

    —23—

    —152—

    —38—

    —129—

    —114—
    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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 1 percent salt crystals; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    ABk—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) and dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 6/1) and light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 1 percent salt crystals and 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), white (2.5Y 8/1), dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Tongues of gray (10YR 5/1) extend throughout this horizon.
    BCk—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 5 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very few very fine roots throughout and very few fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; moist when described; observed in pit, small