IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Niobell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 58ND101004
  • User Pedon ID: 58ND101004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0029
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32571
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 48.6502778
  • Std. Longitude: -102.1363889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.2 mile north and 240 feet west of south quarter corner of Section 26, T.160N., R.89W.
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND101—Ward
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert L. Howey
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Niobell
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/1958
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/1958 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    30—51

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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

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    579

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    180

    381

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    3.3

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A00214
    E—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A00215. prisms frosted with silica
    E/B—25 to 30 centimeters (9.8 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium platy, and weak medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A00216. prisms frosted with silica
    Btn1—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; moderate fine prismatic parts to strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; brown (10YR 5/3), dry, clay films on faces of peds and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A00217. continuous - phpvsfiid 89119; continuous - phpvsfiid 89120; continuous - phpvsfiid 89119; continuous - phpvsfiid 89120
    Btn2—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry, clay films on vertical faces of peds and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A00218. continuous - phpvsfiid 89121; continuous - phpvsfiid 89122; continuous - phpvsfiid 89121; continuous - phpvsfiid 89122
    Bky—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21 percent coarse gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00219
    C1—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); olive (5Y 4/3), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A00220. a few coarse lignite spots
    C2—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent coarse gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00221
    C3—127 to 157 centimeters (50.0 to 61.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent coarse gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A00222. Separated for sampling.