IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wahpeton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978ND097003
  • User Pedon ID: 78ND097003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46205
  • 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: 47.2669449
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8391647
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 144N
  • Range: 49W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 180 meters W and 34 meters N of SE corner
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND097—Traill
  • MLRA: 56—Red River Valley of the North

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Norman D. Prochnow SCS Area Soil Scientist
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Udertic Haploborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wahpeton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wahpeton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Udertic Haploboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landform: fluvial terrace
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1978 (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
  • 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
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    1A11—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 roots; 2.5 tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00062. many roots
    1A12—10 to 51 centimeters (3.9 to 20.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 roots; 2.5 tubular pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00063. many roots
    1A13—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 roots; 2.5 tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00064. common roots
    1C1—76 to 127 centimeters (29.9 to 50.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silty clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 2.5 tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00065. few roots
    1A1b—127 to 147 centimeters (50.0 to 57.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00066
    1C2—147 to 152 centimeters (57.9 to 59.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 79P00067. many soft masses of lime concentrations