IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moreau
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977ND001005
  • User Pedon ID: 77ND001005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0150
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45159
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 46.1402779
  • Std. Longitude: -102.8902740
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 131N
  • Range: 98W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 73 meters E and 26 meters S of the NW corner of the SW 1/4
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND001—Adams

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Wilhelm S. Ekart and R. Luethe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Haploborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Moreau
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moreau
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, frigid Vertic Ustochrept
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1977
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1977 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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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    882

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    180

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    1Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay; moderate fine granular structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00781. common very fine roots
    1B21—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; pressure faces and slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00782. Tongues of Ap material greater than 5 mm thick.; common very fine roots
    1B22ca—41 to 55 centimeters (16.1 to 21.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; pressure faces; 11 percent fine and medium irregular lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00783. Tongues of Ap material greater than 5 mm thick. Slickensides with some dipping at 45 degree angle.; common fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations; common very fine roots
    1B3ca—55 to 71 centimeters (21.7 to 28.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior, light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; pressure faces; 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified and 30 percent fine and medium irregular calcite crystals; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00784. Tongues of Ap material about 5 mm thick. Slickensides with some dipping at 45 degree angle.; few fine gypsum crystals concentrations; many fine and medium calcite crystals concentrations; many very fine roots
    1Cr1—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior, light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior, dry; clay; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent pressure faces; 30 percent fine gypsum masses and 30 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00785. Roots most following fissures and cleavage planes. Rock fissile structure.; many fine masses of gypsum concentrations; many fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations; few pressure faces surface features; common very fine roots
    1Cr2—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior and olive (5Y 5/3) interior, light gray (5Y 7/2) interior and pale yellow (5Y 7/3) interior, dry; clay; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine gypsum masses; fragments. Lab sample # 78P00786. Roots along fissures and cleavage planes. Pores in mateial along cleavage planes. Cleavage planes coated with brownish 10YR 6/6 moist and dark brown 10YR 3/3 moist.; common fine masses of gypsum concentrations; few very fine roots