IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): BULLTOP
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997ND033009
  • User Pedon ID: S1997ND033009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1997ND033009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0166
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10438
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 46.8511124
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6961975
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 139N
  • Range: 103W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet west and 1400 feet north of the SE corner
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND033—Golden Valley
  • MLRA: 58C—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northeastern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND033—Golden Valley County, North Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46103-G6—Square Butte, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: TMC, ARG, LEE, MGU, CJT
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - BULLTOP
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Aridic Haploborolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1997
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: badlands
  • Landform: fan
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 46
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    BOGR2

    CAFI

    KOCR

    OPHU

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Carex filifolia

    Koeleria cristata

    Opuntia humifusa

    blue grama

    blue grama

    threadleaf sedge

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—41

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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

    4

    366

    182.9

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    180

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01044; dry when described;
    Bw1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity continuous tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01045; dry when described;
    Bw2—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity continuous tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P01046; dry when described;
    2Bk1—41 to 81 centimeters (16.1 to 31.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) iron concretions; 10 percent fine irregular light gray (2.5Y 7/2) lime masses; 42 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P01047; dry when described;
    2Bk2—81 to 140 centimeters (31.9 to 55.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; extremely gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; coarse ; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 68 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P01048; dry when described;
    2C—140 to 203 centimeters (55.1 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), dry; extremely gravelly loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent medium irregular gypsum crystal clusters around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 98P01049; dry when described;