IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Northcote
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1953ND017003
  • User Pedon ID: 1953ND017003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0040
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32582
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 47.0508333
  • Std. Longitude: -96.9563889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 141 N
  • Range: 50 W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 370 feet west and 280 feet north of southeast corner, Section 2, T.141N., R.50W.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND017—Cass
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-FAR—Fargo, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE025—Cass County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.A. Mogen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Northcote
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/1953
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Northcote
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Epiaquerts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/1953
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey lacustrine deposits and/or lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: glacial lake plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    0—61

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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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A00285
    Bw1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); black (2.5Y 2/1), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dry; clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A00286
    Bw2—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dry; clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A00287
    Bw3—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00288
    Bk1—91 to 137 centimeters (35.8 to 53.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), gray (5Y 6/1), dry; clay; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00289. moist aggregates glisten
    Bk2—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; clay; light gray (5Y 7/2) and 3 percent olive (5Y 4/4) medium distinct mottles; weak very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 5 percent lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00290. firm when moist