IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vebar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2001ND089001
  • User Pedon ID: S2001ND089001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001ND089001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0765
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15256
  • 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: 46.7741667
  • Std. Longitude: -102.6738889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 138N
  • Range: 95W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 265 feet south and 2590 feet west of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: VpB—Vebar-Parshall fine sandy loams, undulatingE1625B—Vebar-Parshall fine sandy loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND089—Stark
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DIC—Dickinson, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND089—Stark County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Champa, Fred Aziz, Jason Nemecek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vebar (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vebar (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/2001
  • Classifier - Tom Champa
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very weakly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 66cm
  • Geology: Sentinel Butte formation of the Fort Union group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: G054XY130ND - Very Droughty Loam—Forage Suitability Groups

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/12/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Tom Champa, Fred Aziz & Jason Nemecek
  • Air Photo ID: 150
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CAFI

    STCO4

    KOMA

    PASM

    Carex filifolia

    Stipa comata

    Koeleria macrantha

    Pascopyrum smithii

    threadleaf sedge

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    prairie Junegrass

    western wheatgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—38

    66—200

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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

    5

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    774

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    225

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    A—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 15.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N03882; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—16 to 38 centimeters (6.3 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 7.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N03883; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 11 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter iron-manganese concretions fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N03884; observed in pit, small
    BC—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter iron-manganese concretions fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N03885; observed in pit, small
    Cr—66 to 200 centimeters (26.0 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; structureless massive; low excavation difficulty; fragments, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 02N03886; observed in pit, small