IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CHAMA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997ND033004
  • User Pedon ID: S1997ND033004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0165
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10437
  • 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: 46.7758064
  • Std. Longitude: -103.9541931
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 138N
  • Range: 105W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 2400 feet west and 400 feet N of the SE corner
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND033—Golden Valley
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND033—Golden Valley County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Ulmer, L. Edland, D. Vander Busch
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - CHAMA
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, nonacid Typic Calciborolls
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1997
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: s slight weathered siltstone, calcareous
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 54
  • 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: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    paralithic contact

    calcic horizon

    0—18

    0—74

    13—43

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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

    6

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    887

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    225

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine continuous tubular pores; 1 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 98P01038
    Ap2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine continuous tubular pores; 2 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01039
    Bk1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01040
    Bk2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; very fine continuous tubular pores; 25 percent medium irregular pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) lime masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01041
    C—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; silt loam; hard when dry, friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P01042. Brown color contains more of sand; Gray color is less weathered
    Cr—74 to 203 centimeters (29.1 to 79.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), 2.5Y (2.5Y/),, dry; silt loam; moderate medium platy parts to moderate very fine and fine platy structure; 5 percent medium irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) iron concretions throughout; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 98P01043