IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Towner
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984ND049300
  • User Pedon ID: S1984ND049300
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 84ND049300
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72217
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 48.4133333
  • Std. Longitude: -100.8413889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 157N.
  • Range: 79W.
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 640 feet south and 120 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: About 10 miles north of Upham, ND.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND049—McHenry
  • MLRA: 55A—Northern Black Glaciated Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DVL—Devils Lake, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND049—McHenry County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LD, SS, RM, JM, OH, SE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy over loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Towner
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/21/2017
  • Classifier - Alan R.Gulsvig
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Towner
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/1984
  • Classifier - S. Ekart
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands over fine-silty lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: sand mantled glacial lake (relict)
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: S. Ekart, D. Hopkins, L. Deslauriers, S. Sieler
  • Air Photo ID: 41
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • 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

    0—71

    81—163

    142—163

    —71—

    —82—

    —21—
    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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; many very fine and fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1217; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loamy fine sand; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; many very fine and fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1218; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw1—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loamy fine sand; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; common very fine and fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1219; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw2—71 to 81 centimeters (28.0 to 31.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; common very fine and fine roots throughout and few coarse roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 5 percent faint clay films between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1220; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. patchy - phpvsfiid 90672; patchy - phpvsfiid 90673; patchy - phpvsfiid 90672; patchy - phpvsfiid 90673
    2Bk1—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1221; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bk2—99 to 142 centimeters (39.0 to 55.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU1222; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2BCk—142 to 163 centimeters (55.9 to 64.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 5 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # NDSU1223; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry