IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vallers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016ND043001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016ND043001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N1847
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 85233
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 47.1973400
  • Std. Longitude: -99.9244670
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND043—Kidder
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-BIS—Bismarck, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND043—Kidder County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Perry Sullivan, Kyle Thomson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vallers
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/2016
  • Classifier - Kyle Thomson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: local alluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: depression
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: rare ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/29/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Kyle Thomson
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—40

    40—140

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    —100—
    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

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    A1—0 to 27 centimeters (0.0 to 10.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; many very fine dendritic tubular and common medium dendritic tubular and many fine dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N08488; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—27 to 40 centimeters (10.6 to 15.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; many very fine dendritic tubular and common medium dendritic tubular and many fine dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N08489; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bkg1—40 to 85 centimeters (15.7 to 33.5 inches); light greenish gray (5GY 7/1) fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and few medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; common very fine dendritic tubular and few medium dendritic tubular and common fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent fine light greenish gray (10Y 7/1) reduced matrix in matrix and 10 percent fine light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine 2.5Y 4/6 (2.5Y 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N08490; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bkg2—85 to 140 centimeters (33.5 to 55.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; few very fine dendritic tubular and few fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent fine greenish gray (10BG 5/1), moist, masses of reduced iron lining pores and 10 percent medium light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; carbonate, finely disseminated and 2 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix and 2 percent medium carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N08491; wet, satiated when described; observed in auger, bucket
    BC—140 to 160 centimeters (55.1 to 63.0 inches); greenish gray (5GY 6/1) fine sandy loam; 18 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent fine gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, reduced matrix lining pores and 30 percent medium light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; carbonate, finely disseminated and 2 percent medium carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N08492; wet, satiated when described; observed in auger, bucket
    2C—160 to 200 centimeters (63.0 to 78.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent medium gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, reduced matrix lining pores and 20 percent medium light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; carbonate, finely disseminated and 2 percent medium carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 16N08493; wet, satiated when described; observed in auger, bucket