IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017ND013001
  • User Pedon ID: S2017ND013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0147
  • User Project ID: 10-BIS 2017-4 003
  • Project Name: MLRA 53B - Nutley Taxadjunct Series Development
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 48.6941870
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4725600
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND013—Burke
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-BIS—Bismarck, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND013—Burke County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kyle Thomson, Perry Sullivan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Chromic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Kyle Thomson, Perry Sullivan
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    slickensides

    0—21

    21—135

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    —55—
    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

    2

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    741.6

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    Ap—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 52 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots and few (1.0) fine roots; few (1.0) very fine and few (1.0) fine pores; 10 reversible trans-horizon cracks per meter that extend above the horizon; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N01081; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bss1—21 to 49 centimeters (8.3 to 19.3 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 55 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots and few (1.0) fine roots; few (1.0) very fine and few (1.0) fine pores; 10 reversible trans-horizon cracks per meter that extend above and below the horizon; slickensides (pedogenic); carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01082; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bss2—49 to 90 centimeters (19.3 to 35.4 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 55 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots and few (1.0) fine roots; few (1.0) very fine and few (1.0) fine pores; 10 reversible trans-horizon cracks per meter that extend above and below the horizon; slickensides (pedogenic); carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01083; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bss3—90 to 135 centimeters (35.4 to 53.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 55 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots and few (1.0) fine roots; few (1.0) very fine and few (1.0) fine pores; 10 reversible trans-horizon cracks per meter that extend above and below the horizon; slickensides (pedogenic); 2 percent fine faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N01084; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    C—135 to 200 centimeters (53.1 to 78.7 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay; 57 percent clay; massive; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 10 percent coarse distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 18N01085; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry