IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Williams
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 58ND013006
  • User Pedon ID: 58ND013006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 58ND013006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0073
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32615
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 48.9036111
  • Std. Longitude: -102.3041667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.35 mile south and 225 feet east of northwest corner of Section 36, T.136N., R.90W.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND013—Burke
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert L. Howey
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Williams
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1958
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/1958 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFR4

    BOGR2

    HECOC8

    NAVI4

    PASM

    SYOC

    Artemisia frigida

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Nassella viridula

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Symphoricarpos occidentalis

    prairie sagewort

    blue grama

    needle and thread

    green needlegrass

    western wheatgrass

    western snowberry

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

    mollic epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—30

    20—30

    30—66

    66—107

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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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    549

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    381

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    3.3

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00517; dry when described;
    A2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A00518; dry when described;
    E/B—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loam; weak prismatic, and weak platy, and weak angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A00519; dry when described;
    Bt1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A00520; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 89861; continuous - phpvsfiid 89861
    Bt2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry, clay films on faces of peds and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist,; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A00521; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 89862; continuous - phpvsfiid 89862
    Bk1—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; loam; weak and moderate prismatic, and angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent fine carbonate nodules; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00522; dry when described;
    Bk2—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; loam; weak subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent fine carbonate nodules; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A00523; dry when described;
    C1—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; sandy loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A00524; dry when described;
    C2—127 to 168 centimeters (50.0 to 66.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; weak angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00525; dry when described;