IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sakakawea
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005ND061001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005ND061001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0408
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18454
  • 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: 48.4988213
  • Std. Longitude: -102.6569672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 158N
  • Range: 93W
  • Section: 23
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND061—Mountrail
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND061—Mountrail County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MU, EJ, LD, DV, LE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sakakawea
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/2005
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: beach ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/25/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    5

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    270

    394

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    120

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    Apk—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; 21 percent clay; strong coarse cloddy, and moderate medium cloddy structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N01505; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01506; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—31 to 57 centimeters (12.2 to 22.4 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N01507; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—57 to 95 centimeters (22.4 to 37.4 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.2 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-10 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01508; observed in pit, small
    BCk—95 to 123 centimeters (37.4 to 48.4 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak extremely coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-10 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N01509; observed in pit, small
    C1—123 to 170 centimeters (48.4 to 66.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; medium prominent gray (10YR 5/1) clay depletions and medium prominent black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-10 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N01510; observed in pit, small
    C2—170 to 235 centimeters (66.9 to 92.5 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist; sandy loam; 17 percent clay; massive; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-10 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N01511; observed in pit, small
    2C—235 to 270 centimeters (92.5 to 106.3 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; massive; slightly sticky, very plastic; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay depletions and 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 06N01512; observed in auger, bucket