IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Minot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017ND055010
  • User Pedon ID: S2017ND055010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0149
  • 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: 47.3661210
  • Std. Longitude: -100.7442830
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND055—McLean
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-BIS—Bismarck, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND055—McLean County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brianna Wegner
  • 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: 9/21/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Brianna Wegner
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    slickensides

    0—35

    35—120

    35—120

    —35—

    —85—

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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

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; silty clay; 5 percent sand; 42 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; loose, loose, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N01092; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bss—25 to 35 centimeters (9.8 to 13.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; 5 percent sand; 42 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N01093; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bkss1—35 to 64 centimeters (13.8 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay; 5 percent sand; 42 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; slickensides (pedogenic) and pressure faces; carbonate, finely disseminated and 3 percent very fine carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N01094; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bkss2—64 to 120 centimeters (25.2 to 47.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay; 15 percent sand; 42 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; slickensides (pedogenic) and pressure faces; 2 percent fine masses of oxidized iron; carbonate, finely disseminated and 3 percent very fine carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N01095; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    C—120 to 200 centimeters (47.2 to 78.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 38 percent clay; massive; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; pressure faces; 15 percent medium masses of reduced iron and 25 percent medium masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 18N01096; slightly dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. Textures are on the line, Clay percent was 40 + or - 2%