IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aastad
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017ND093020
  • User Pedon ID: S2017ND093020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • User Project ID: DCFS_009_NEON
  • Project Name: Dakota Coteau Field School
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 47.1692650
  • Std. Longitude: -99.0569183
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: NEON site at the Dakota Coteau Field School near Pingree, ND. The center of the sampled pit is 65 degrees and 12 meters from the NEON SW40x40 corner. The Std Latitude and Std Longitude coordinates represent the pit center.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND093—Stutsman
  • MLRA: 55B—Central Black Glaciated Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DVL—Devils Lake, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND093—Stutsman County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Beth Burdolski, Jordaan Thompson, Brianna Wegner, Keith Anderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 250- to 600-millimeter mixed, 2.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 76- to 250-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 20
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - DCFS_020

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/22/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Beth Burdolski, Jordaan Thompson, Brianna Wegner
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—50

    24—74

    50—74

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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

    2

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    521

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    141

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    A—0 to 24 centimeters (0.0 to 9.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; loam; 35 percent sand; 20 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 25.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—24 to 50 centimeters (9.4 to 19.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; extremely cobbly sandy clay loam; 55 percent sand; 34 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 medium dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method and 50 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-150-250 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btk—50 to 74 centimeters (19.7 to 29.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), dry; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 30 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; 4 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—74 to 105 centimeters (29.1 to 41.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; clay loam; 30 percent sand; 30 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence.; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small