IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rhoades
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006ND00701
  • User Pedon ID: S2006ND00701
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006ND00701
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0284
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18590
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 46.8343620
  • Std. Longitude: -103.3276672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 139N
  • Range: 100W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: SE4, SW4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND007—Billings
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46103-G3—Fryburg, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Edland, M. Ulmer, D. Vanderbusch, T. Champa, J. Kempenich, J. Heilig, J. Vasquez
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Leptic Vertic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rhoades
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, frigid Leptic Vertic Natrustolls
  • PSC - 12 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/23/2006
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Sentinel Butte formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/23/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 60
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • 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 - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGCR

    ARFR4

    BOGR2

    ELTRT

    MELIL

    PASM

    POSE

    Agropyron cristatum

    Artemisia frigida

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Elymus trachycaulus ssp. trachycaulus

    Melilotus

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Poa secunda

    crested wheatgrass

    prairie sagewort

    blue grama

    slender wheatgrass

    sweetclover

    western wheatgrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    natric horizon

    0—35

    18—86

    —35—

    —68—
    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

    3

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    225

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    E—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; loam; 23 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 8.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01555; dry when described; observed in trench
    BE—7 to 18 centimeters (2.8 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; loam; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse platy structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 8.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01556; dry when described; observed in trench
    Btn—18 to 35 centimeters (7.1 to 13.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silty clay; 42 percent clay; strong coarse columnar parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 80 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01557; dry when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 365850; continuous - phpvsfiid 365850
    Btknyz1—35 to 53 centimeters (13.8 to 20.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; silty clay; 42 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses on faces of peds and 3 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01558; dry when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 365851; continuous - phpvsfiid 365851
    Btknyz2—53 to 86 centimeters (20.9 to 33.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 4 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified on faces of peds and 10 percent medium irregular carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01559; dry when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 365852; continuous - phpvsfiid 365852
    BCkyz—86 to 129 centimeters (33.9 to 50.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 3 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified on faces of peds and 9 percent medium irregular carbonate masses on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01560; dry when described; observed in trench
    C1—129 to 153 centimeters (50.8 to 60.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; clay loam; 34 percent clay; massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 15 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 8 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 3 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix; 2 percent by volume angular scoria fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01561; dry when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C2—153 to 203 centimeters (60.2 to 79.9 inches); 6/4 6/4) broken face, 4/2 4/2) broken face, moist; clay loam; 34 percent clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 10 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 8 percent fine irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 3 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix; 2 percent by volume angular scoria fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 07N01562; dry when described; observed in auger, bucket