IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Miranda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 58ND013004
  • User Pedon ID: 58ND013004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0082
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32624
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 0.2 mile south and 230 feet west of north quarter corner of Section 16, T.160N., R.90W.
  • State: North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert L. Howey
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Miranda
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/1958
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/31/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    579

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    180

    381

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    A2—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loam; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A00583
    B2—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay; strong medium columnar parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry, clay films and black (10YR 2/1), moist,; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A00584. continuous - phpvsfiid 89866; continuous - phpvsfiid 89866
    B3cs—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A00585. continuous - phpvsfiid 89868; continuous - phpvsfiid 89868
    Ccacs—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; weak subangular blocky, and massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 21 percent gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00586
    Cca1—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; massive, and weak subangular blocky; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 40A00587
    Cca2—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; massive, and weak subangular blocky; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00588. Separated for sampling only.
    C1—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; coarse gypsum crystal clusters; fragments. Lab sample # 40A00589
    C2—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; coarse gypsum crystal clusters; fragments. Lab sample # 40A00590