IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rosebud
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1957SD113003
  • User Pedon ID: 1957SD113003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2452
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37148
  • Print Date: 5/4/2025

    • 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: 43.0463528
  • Std. Longitude: -102.1967389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35 N.
  • Range: 41 W.
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 780 feet east and 65 feet south of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Site is about 7 mi. east and 1 mi. south of Denby, SD.
  • Map Unit: RkC—Rosebud-Keith silt loams, 3 to 9 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD113—Oglala Lakota
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD613—Oglala Lakota County Area, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43102-A2—Wakpamani, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Radeke, et. al.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rosebud
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 18 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/2018
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy residuum weathered from calcareous sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone, calcareous at 79cm
  • 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
    R064XY036NE Loamy 17-20" PZ

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/13/2013 (entry creation date)
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    79 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    paralithic contact

    0—18

    18—36

    25—79

    36—51

    79—104

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    —18—

    —54—

    —15—

    —25—
    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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    1067

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    230

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A19199. Quartz grains finely divided, predominantly bleached, some unbleached; pink minerals and dark minerals common; false, plow depth boundary.; Reation is neutral.
    BA—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak very fine granular, and weak medium prismatic parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19200. Few, small fragments of sandstone; quartz grains finely divided, predominantly lightly stained, some bleached; pink minerals and dark minerals common.; Reation is neutral.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609974; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609974
    Bt1—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; clay films on vertical faces of peds and clay films on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19201. Quartz grains finely divided, predominantly lightly stained, some bleached; pink minerals and dark minerals common; few small fragments of calcareous sandstone.; Reation is mildly alkaline.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1609975; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609976; continuous - phpvsfiid 1609975; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609976
    Bt2—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; hard, friable; clay films on vertical faces of peds and clay films on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19202. Few, small fragments of calcareous sandstone; quartz grains finely divided, predominantly stained, some bleached; pink minerals common.; Reation is mildly alkaline.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1609977; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609978; continuous - phpvsfiid 1609977; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609978
    Bk—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19203. Common fine bits and fragments of calcareous sandstone; quartz grains finely divided, predominantly bleached, some lightly stained; pink minerals and dark minerals common.; Reation is moderately alkaline.; Effervescence is calcareous.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609979; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609979
    2C1—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); white (10YR 8/1), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), moist; sandy loam; massive; soft, friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19204. Many large fragments of hard calcareous sandstone; quartz grains finely divided, predominantly bleached; pink minerals and dark minerals common.; Reation is moderately alkaline.; Effervescence is calcareous.
    2C2—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); white (7.5YR 8/1), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist; sandy loam; massive; soft, friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19205. Few large fragments of hard calcareous sandstone; quartz grains finely divided, predominantly bleached; pink minerals and dark minerals common.; Reation is moderately alkaline.; Effervescence is calcareous.
    Cr—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); white (10YR 8/1), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 40A19206. Harrison sandstone or Monroe Creek silt stone; quartz grains finely divided, predominantly bleached; pink minerals and dark minerals common.; Reation is moderately alkaline.; Effervescence is calcareous.