IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vallers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997ND071001
  • User Pedon ID: S1997ND071001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1997ND071001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0168
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10440
  • User Project ID: LEED_10-BIS20
  • Project Name: MLRA 55A - Investigation of the Leeds Lobe and Map Unit Recorrelation
  • 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: 48.1958351
  • Std. Longitude: -99.1502762
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 155N
  • Range: 66W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: SW corner
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND071—Ramsey
  • MLRA: 55A—Northern Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND071—Ramsey County, North Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48099-B2—Tilden, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Earnie Jensen, Steve Sieler, Mike Ulmer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciaquolls
  • 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
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vallers
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/7/2020
  • Classifier - Kyle Thomson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - VALLERS
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciaquolls
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/1997
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 1

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 58
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PHAR3

    PHAR3

    Phalaris arundinacea

    Phalaris arundinacea

    reed canarygrass

    reed canarygrass

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

    secondary carbonates

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    0—152

    0—18

    18—81

    41—152

    81—152

    —152—

    —18—

    —63—

    —111—

    —71—
    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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    444

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    0

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); mucky peat; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01060. Partially decomposed grass roots, High % of broken snail shells, Moss
    Apk—1 to 18 centimeters (0.4 to 7.1 inches); black (N 2/0), very dark gray (N 3/0), dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to granular structure; 3 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01060. Redox in root pores.
    Bk1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); 95 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) and 5 percent gray (5Y 5/1), 95 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) and 5 percent gray (5Y 6/1), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P01061
    Bk2—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 21 percent coarse irregular noncoherent cemented gray (5Y 6/1) lime masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P01062
    Bk3—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); 70 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2) and 20 percent gray (5Y 5/1) and 10 percent olive (5Y 5/3), 70 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 20 percent gray (5Y 6/1) and 10 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P01063
    BC—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); 80 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 20 percent gray (5Y 5/1), 80 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and 20 percent light gray (5Y 7/1), dry; clay loam; 3 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 98P01064