IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Promise
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978SD017042
  • User Pedon ID: 78SD017042
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0044
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46228
  • 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: 44.0424995
  • Std. Longitude: -99.3088913
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 107N
  • Range: 71W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 166 meters W and 623 meters S of NE corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD017—Buffalo
  • MLRA: 63B—Southern Rolling Pierre Shale Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. Krueger D. Macauly 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 #: 42
  • 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

    23—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 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay; weak fine granular structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00224. common fine roots
    1A12—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00225. common fine roots
    1B21—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 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 medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 37 percent gibbsite coats on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00226. Common fine and medium very dark gray (10YR 3/1) moist tongues of A 12 horizon.; common gibbsite coats surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots
    1B22—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 37 percent gibbsite coats on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00227. Common fine and medium very dark gary (10YR 3/1) moist tongues of A 12 horizon.; common gibbsite coats surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots
    1B3ca—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 37 percent gibbsite coats on faces of peds; 11 percent medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00228. Few fine and medium very dark gray (10YR 3/1) moist tongues of A 12 horizon.; common medium soft masses of lime concentrations; common gibbsite coats surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots
    1Ccs—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine lime masses and 11 percent fine and medium gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 79P00229. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine and medium gypsum crystals concentrations; few fine roots