IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Janesburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2021ND011001
  • User Pedon ID: S2021ND011001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 22N0063
  • User Project ID: FY23
  • Project Name: UMRB_DIC
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 46.1995833
  • Std. Longitude: -103.4730556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 131N
  • Range: 102W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 2,200 feet south and 135 feet east of the NW corner
  • Location Description: NDAWN climate station near Bowman, ND
  • Map Unit: CaC—Cabba complex, 6 to 9 percent slopesE2707C—Cabba-Chama silt loams, 3 to 9 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND011—Bowman
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DIC—Dickinson, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND011—Bowman County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Kempenich, Krista Bryan, Jeanne Heilig, Ruth Anderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Janesburg
  • PSC - 28 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/2022
  • Classifier - Heilig, Jeanne
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Janesburg
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Natrustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 28 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/2021
  • Classifier - Heilig, Jeanne
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Dominant - perennial grass
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Secondary - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Current Crop - crested wheatgrass
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sodium-affected clayey residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale, unspecified at 89cm
  • Geology: Bullion Creek formation of the Fort Union group.
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent flat subangular indurated 2- to 150-millimeter chert,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R054XY021ND Claypan Aug 25 2021 Heilig, Jeanne
  • Other Vegetative Class: G054XY800ND - Claypan—Forage Suitability Groups

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/2021 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: John Kempenich, Jeanne Heilig, Krista Bryan, Ruth Anderson
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 24
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    strongly coherent

    89 - 200

    - 111 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    gypsum accumulations

    paralithic contact

    0—23

    23—28

    28—64

    43—89

    89—200

    —23—

    —5—

    —36—

    —46—

    —111—
    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

    6

    —

    —

    915

    —

    180

    406

    —

    128

    6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Bowman

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    Ap—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 35 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak medium cloddy parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; many (6.0) very fine roots throughout and common (1.0) fine roots throughout; common (4.0) very fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-80-150 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and 4 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-15-150 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 22N00335; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—11 to 23 centimeters (4.3 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 35 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout; many (13.0) very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-15-150 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 22N00336; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    E—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; 45 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout; many (5.0) very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-10-150 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 22N00337; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btn—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay; 10 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 62 percent clay; strong coarse columnar parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; rigid, rigid, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; common (3.0) very fine roots between peds and many (8.0) very fine roots top of horizon; common (3.0) very fine tubular pores; 80 percent prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular gray (10YR 5/1), dry, iron depletions on vertical faces of peds and 1 percent medium prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), dry, masses of oxidized iron in matrix surrounding redox depletions; 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-10-150 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 22N00338; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Btnky—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; silty clay; 10 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 65 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; rigid, rigid, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; many (5.0) very fine roots between peds; common (1.0) very fine tubular pores; 65 percent prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), dry, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 5 percent fine irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 5 percent medium irregular gypsum crystal clusters throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 22N00339; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2BCky—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist; silty clay; 10 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 55 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine prominent irregular brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), dry, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 30 percent medium irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout and 15 percent medium irregular gypsum crystal clusters throughout; 5 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-10-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 22N00340; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—89 to 200 centimeters (35.0 to 78.7 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist; bedrock; structureless massive; extremely hard, slightly rigid; very slow permeability; 2 percent fine prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), dry, masses of oxidized iron along lamina or strata surfaces and 2 percent fine prominent threadlike strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), dry, masses of oxidized iron along lamina or strata surfaces; 10 percent coarse irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses along lamina or strata surfaces; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 22N00341; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small