IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vallers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983ND019230
  • User Pedon ID: S1983ND019230
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NDSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 83ND019230
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71264
  • User Project ID: 10-BIS 2021-1-002
  • Project Name: MLRA 55A - Investigation of the Red River Lobe and Map Unit Recorrelation
  • 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: 48.7730556
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4552778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 161N.
  • Range: 60W.
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1,000 feet south and 650 feet west of the NE corner
  • Location Description: About 3 miles west and 1 mile north of Langdon, ND.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND019—Cavalier
  • MLRA: 55A—Northern Black Glaciated Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DVL—Devils Lake, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND019—Cavalier County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Moos
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vallers
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/2018
  • Classifier - Alan R. Gulsvig
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manfred
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/1983
  • Classifier - D. Moos
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Ponding: rare ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/18/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: D. Moos
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    free carbonates

    calcic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    0—38

    0—152

    15—84

    15—38

    38—152

    —38—

    —152—

    —69—

    —23—

    —114—
    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

    0

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common fine roots throughout; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bk1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct dark gray (5Y 4/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 1355892; patchy - phpvsfiid 1355892
    Bk2—38 to 84 centimeters (15.0 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;. Tongues of very dark gray (5Y 3/1) material extend to a depth of 66 cm.; Few fine rounded manganese pellets.
    BC—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), light gray (5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent medium prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, iron-manganese masses and 21 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine salt crystals; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; wet, satiated when described;. Few fine rounded manganese pellets.