IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parchin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978SD063038
  • User Pedon ID: 78SD063038
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0540
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46094
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 45.3471756
  • Std. Longitude: -103.9964294
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 22 km S and 1.1 km W of Camp Crook 488 meters N and 69 meters E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Harding Co.
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD063—Harding
  • MLRA: 58D—Northern Rolling High Plains, Eastern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.Johnson M.Mausbach F.Wilhelm
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Borollic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 38
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Parchin
  • PSC - 25 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Parchin
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microdepression
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    natric horizon

    25—86

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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

    2

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    1039

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    270

    36

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    7

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    397062

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    1A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03133. Pedon subsamples collected were 78P3143 and 78P3144; many fine and medium roots
    1A2—12 to 25 centimeters (4.7 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; weak coarse platy, and weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03134. many fine and medium roots
    1B21t—25 to 35 centimeters (9.8 to 13.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and strong fine and medium blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots between peds; light gray (10YR 7/2) coats on upper surfaces of peds or rocks and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03135. Pedon subsamples collected were 78P3145 and 78P3146; common fine and medium roots between peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 213771; patchy - phpvsfiid 213771
    1B22tca—35 to 45 centimeters (13.8 to 17.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; 11 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03136. common fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine and medium roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 213772; patchy - phpvsfiid 213772
    1B31cacs—45 to 56 centimeters (17.7 to 22.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; sandy loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky; 0.5 fine and medium roots between peds; slickensides (pedogenic) on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine lime masses and 11 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03137. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine gypsum crystals concentrations; few fine and medium roots between peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 213773; patchy - phpvsfiid 213773
    1B32cacs—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 1 percent fine lime masses and 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03138. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine gypsum crystals concentrations; few fine roots between peds
    1Ccs—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) interior, olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 1 percent fine lime masses and 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03139. Medium bedding planes of rock structure. Pedon subsamples collected were 78P3147 and 78P3148; few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine gypsum crystals concentrations; few fine roots between peds
    1Cr1—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) interior, olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior, moist; weathered bedrock; 0.1 fine roots; 11 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03140. Thick horizontal bedding planes from 1 to 5 in thick. Fine grained soft sandstone. Very few fine compressed roots between bedding planes.; common fine lime concretions concentrations; very few fine roots
    1Cr2—102 to 135 centimeters (40.2 to 53.1 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) interior, olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior, moist; unweathered bedrock; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # 78P03141. Thick horizontal bedding planes 2 to 6 inches thick. Fine rained soft sandstone. Very few fine compressed roots between beddin planes.; few fine lime concretions concentrations; very few fine roots
    1Cr3—135 to 165 centimeters (53.1 to 65.0 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) interior, olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior, moist; unweathered bedrock; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 78P03142. Fine grained soft sandstone. Very few fine compressed roots between bedding planes.; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine lime concretions concentrations; very few fine roots