IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Magnus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 58ND089018
  • User Pedon ID: 58ND089018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0093
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32635
  • 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: 46.9816667
  • Std. Longitude: -102.3030556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 215 feet north of south quarter corner of Section 35, T.141N., R.92W.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND089—Stark
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K.E. Larson
  • 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 - Magnus
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/1958
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    0—81

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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

    1

    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (2.5Y 2/1), dark gray (5Y 4/1), dry; moderate very fine granular structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00665. About 1 percent of delineated area is occupied by dispersed Ap layer.
    Bt1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), olive gray (5Y 4/2), dry; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) clay films; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00666. continuous - phpvsfiid 89142; continuous - phpvsfiid 89142
    Bt2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), olive gray (5Y 4/2), dry; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) clay films; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00667. Split for laboratory purposes.; continuous - phpvsfiid 89143; continuous - phpvsfiid 89143
    By1—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 roots; very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent carbonate nodules and 25 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00668. patchy - phpvsfiid 89144; patchy - phpvsfiid 89144
    By2—81 to 112 centimeters (31.9 to 44.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.1 roots; very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 25 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) gypsum crystals, unspecified and 25 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00669. patchy - phpvsfiid 89145; patchy - phpvsfiid 89145
    C—112 to 157 centimeters (44.1 to 61.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots; 1 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified between peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00670