IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chanta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993ND053397
  • User Pedon ID: S1993ND053397
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0190
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66378
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 47.3383331
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6200027
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 145N
  • Range: 102W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 2450 feet east and 1800 feet south of the northwest corner
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND053—McKenzie
  • MLRA: 58C—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northeastern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND053—McKenzie County, North Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47103-C5—Hanks Gully, North Dakota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WDB, CJH, MU, FPA, AG
  • 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
  • Pedon #: 397
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chanta
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, nonacid Aridic Haploborolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/1993
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 188
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—23

    5—38

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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

    1

    225

    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; loam; strong fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 50.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01163
    Bw1—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dry; loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30.0 fine roots between peds; 6.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01164
    Bw2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20.0 fine roots between peds; 5.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01165
    Bk1—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent medium irregular light gray (2.5Y 7/2) carbonate threads around rock fragments; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01166
    2Bk2—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; gravelly clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 25 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/2) carbonate threads around rock fragments; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01167
    2Bk3—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 10 percent medium and coarse irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/2) carbonate threads between peds; 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01168
    2C1—84 to 147 centimeters (33.1 to 57.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, dry; sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P01169
    2C2—147 to 254 centimeters (57.9 to 100.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, dry; sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 94P01170