IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wayden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 61ND089003A
  • User Pedon ID: 61ND089003A
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 61ND089003A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 61ND089003A
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70646
  • 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: 46.7605556
  • Std. Longitude: -103.1863889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 90'N & 625'E of the SW corner of sec. 16, T.138 N., R.99W.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND089—Stark
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND089—Stark County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Patterson
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wayden
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: shale, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    POSE

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Poa secunda

    blue grama

    Sandberg bluegrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—7

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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

    2

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    270

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    A—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak thin platy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0806. Cr1 horizon is thinly laminated weathered shale. Cr2 horizon is stratified laminated shale, massive sandstone and weathered siltstone. Cr2 has many fossil fragments between 32-35 inches.
    Ab—1 to 7 centimeters (0.4 to 2.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0805
    Byz1—7 to 15 centimeters (2.8 to 5.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to strong very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots throughout; 25 percent gypsum crystal clusters throughout and 25 percent salt masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0804
    Byz2—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay; weak very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots throughout; 25 percent gypsum crystal clusters throughout and 25 percent salt masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0803
    Cr1—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) and dark gray (5Y 4/1), gray (5Y 6/1), dry; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent gypsum crystal clusters throughout and 25 percent salt masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # NDSU0802
    Cr2—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; 10 percent gypsum crystal clusters throughout and 10 percent salt masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.