IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Unnamed, Belfield-like
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: moderately deep, eroded
  • User Site ID: S2022ND089003
  • User Pedon ID: S2022ND089003
  • User Site Association ID: S2022ND_NCSS_2023_Field_Trips
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 22N0294
  • User Project ID: 2023 NCSS Conference Tours
  • Project Name: 2023 NCSS Conference Tours
  • Print Date: 2/18/2026

    • 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: 46.9562520
  • Std. Longitude: -103.1272950
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T140N
  • Range: R99W
  • Section: 11
  • Map Unit: E0515B—RHOADES-DAGLUM COMPLEX, 2 TO 6 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: North Dakota
  • County: ND089—Stark
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Regional Office: 5—Salina, KS
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DIC—Dickinson, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ND089—Stark County, North Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wade Bott, John Kempenich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Glossic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed, Belfield-like
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Glossic Natrustolls
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/2022
  • Classifier - Bott. Wade
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: sedimentary plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very weakly coherent shale and siltstone at 67cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R054XY021ND Claypan Jul 18 2022 Bott, Wade

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/2022 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Bott, Wade
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
  • Current Air Temp - 22
  • Kind of Land: native pasture
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    very weakly coherent

    67 - 115

    - 48 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    albic horizon

    albic materials

    argillic horizon

    glossic horizon

    natric horizon

    secondary carbonates

    gypsum accumulations

    paralithic materials

    paralithic contact

    0—18

    0—10

    0—18

    10—41

    10—18

    18—41

    41—115

    41—115

    67—115

    67—

    —18—

    —10—

    —18—

    —31—

    —8—

    —31—

    —74—

    —74—

    —48—

    —-
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    6/24/2022

    6/24/2022

    6/24/2022

    5

    10

    50

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    —

    17

    16

    14
    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

    3

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    E1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 25 percent sand; 22 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (8.0) fine roots throughout; common (4.0) fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 22N01284; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 27 percent sand; 25 percent clay; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular and few (1.0) fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent fine distinct spherical yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 22N01285; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    EBt—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3), 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 23 percent sand; 26 percent clay; weak medium platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular and few (1.0) fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 30 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 22N01286; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btn—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 31 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout; few (2.0) very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular and few (1.0) fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 50 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent spherical yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix and 2 percent fine prominent spherical light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, gypsum masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent spherical light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 22N01287; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bky—41 to 67 centimeters (16.1 to 26.4 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silt loam; 17 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular and few (2.0) fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, gypsum coats on surfaces along pores and 1 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, gypsum coats on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, ironstone nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 10 percent coarse prominent spherical yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; 1 percent fine prominent spherical light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, gypsum crystals, unspecified with sharp boundaries in cracks and 1 percent fine prominent spherical light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate masses with sharp boundaries on surfaces along pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 22N01288; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Cr—67 to 115 centimeters (26.4 to 45.3 inches);, 55 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and 45 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; bedrock; massive; 1 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, gypsum coats in cracks; 1 percent medium prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, ironstone nodules with sharp boundaries in cracks and 10 percent coarse prominent spherical yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # 22N01289; observed in push tube