IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Noonan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988ND023062
  • User Pedon ID: S1988ND023062
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0286
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61390
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 48.9655571
  • Std. Longitude: -103.2441635
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 163N
  • Range: 97W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 470 feet S and 330 feet E of the NW corner
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND023—Divide

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Natrustolls
  • 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 - Noonan
  • PSC - 25 to 107 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/2015
  • Classifier - Sullivan
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Noonan
  • Classificaton Date - 11/3/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: rise
  • Slope Shape Down: undulating
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1988 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    natric

    noncoherent

    25 - 107

    - 82 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    natric horizon

    0—18

    25—107

    —18—

    —82—
    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

    1

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1601. 89P1601; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    E—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate fine platy structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1602. 89P1602; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bt—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; strong coarse prismatic, and strong fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 21 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P1603. 89P1603
    Btz1—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 1 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. common soluble salts/few gypsum crystals
    Btz2—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay loam; dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 5 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) coarse faint mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. few soluble salts/common gypsum crystals
    C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; 1 percent gray (N 5/0) coarse distinct and 1 percent gray (N 6/0) coarse distinct and 5 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine prominent and 5 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence.