IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rhoades
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006ND00702
  • User Pedon ID: S2006ND00702
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006ND00702
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0285
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18591
  • Print Date: 9/23/2024

    • 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: 46.8349991
  • Std. Longitude: -103.3280563
  • 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 #: 2
  • 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
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: mudstone at 125cm
  • 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
  • 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

    MELIL

    PASM

    Agropyron cristatum

    Melilotus

    Pascopyrum smithii

    crested wheatgrass

    sweetclover

    western wheatgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    natric horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—12

    12—50

    50—125

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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

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    836

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; loam; 21 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium platy structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01563; dry when described; observed in trench
    Btn—12 to 28 centimeters (4.7 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; clay; 42 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01564; dry when described; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365861; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365861
    Btknyz—28 to 50 centimeters (11.0 to 19.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent fine irregular carbonate threads in matrix and 15 percent fine carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 5 percent fine gypsum masses on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N01565; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365862; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365862
    Bkyz—50 to 100 centimeters (19.7 to 39.4 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, moist; clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 5 percent fine gypsum masses on faces of peds and 10 percent medium irregular carbonate threads in matrix; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-?-5 millimeter iron-manganese nodules fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 07N01566; dry when described; observed in trench
    BCky—100 to 125 centimeters (39.4 to 49.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; Ksat of 0.0036 um/s; very slow permeability; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 15 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 10 percent medium gypsum masses on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N01567; dry when described; observed in trench
    Cr—125 to 203 centimeters (49.2 to 79.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2); fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 07N01568; observed in auger, bucket