IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Promise
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978SD017041
  • User Pedon ID: 78SD017041
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0043
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46227
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 44.0402794
  • Std. Longitude: -99.3241653
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 107N
  • Range: 71W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 678 meters N and 242 meters E of SW corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD017—Buffalo
  • MLRA: 63B—Southern Rolling Pierre Shale Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. Krueger D. Macauley S. Macauley R Vialle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, mesic Udic Chromusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 41
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Promise
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Promise
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—56

    25—76

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    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

    1

    —

    —

    473

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    270

    51

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    8

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    393217

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    1Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00218
    1A12—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00219. common fine roots
    1B21—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 37 percent gibbsite coats on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00220. Few fine and medium very dark gray (10YR 3/1) moist tongues of A horizon.; common gibbsite coats surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots
    1B22—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior, moist; clay; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 37 percent gibbsite coats on faces of peds; 1 percent medium lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00221. Few fine and medium very dark gray (10YR 3/1) moist tongues of A horizon.; few medium soft masses of lime concentrations; common gibbsite coats surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots
    1B3ca—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 11 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00222. common fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine roots
    1Ccs—89 to 153 centimeters (35.0 to 60.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay; massive; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine and medium lime masses and 11 percent fine and medium gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 79P00223. few fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine and medium gypsum crystals concentrations; common fine roots