IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parchin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978SD063039
  • User Pedon ID: 78SD063039
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0541
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46095
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 45.3444443
  • Std. Longitude: -103.9777756
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 22 km S and .4 km W of Camp Crook 110 meters W and 14 meters N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Harding Co.
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD063—Harding
  • MLRA: 58D—Northern Rolling High Plains, Eastern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.Johnson A.Meland 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 #: 39
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Parchin
  • PSC - 12 to 53 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
  • 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

    53—91

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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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    1046

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    90

    36

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    7

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    397062

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    1A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03149. Pedon subsamples collected were 78P3158 and 78P3159; many fine and medium roots
    1A2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; weak coarse platy, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03150. many fine and medium roots
    1B21t—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; strong coarse columnar, and strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots between peds; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03151. Compressed roots follow along faces of peds and commonly penetrate the ped. Pedon subsampled collected were 78P3160 and 78P3161; common fine and medium roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 213774; continuous - phpvsfiid 213774
    1B22tca—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; 30 percent medium and coarse lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03152. many medium and coarse soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine and medium roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 213775; continuous - phpvsfiid 213775
    1B3cacs—53 to 70 centimeters (20.9 to 27.6 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots between peds; slickensides (pedogenic) on vertical faces of peds; 11 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified and 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 # 78P03153. common fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine gypsum crystals concentrations; common fine and medium roots between peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 213776; patchy - phpvsfiid 213776
    1Ccacs—70 to 91 centimeters (27.6 to 35.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; massive; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 30 percent fine lime masses and 11 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03154. Compressed roots along cleavage planes and cracks and occasionally penetrating soil material. Pedon subsamples collected were 78P3162 and 78P3163; many fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine gypsum crystals concentrations; few fine roots between peds
    1Cr1—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; weathered bedrock; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 1 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03155. Very few roots penetrate rock. Sofft sandstone. Few fine roots along bedding plandes and in cracks. Think horizontal bedding planes.; few fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots in cracks
    1Cr2—117 to 135 centimeters (46.1 to 53.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior, olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior, moist; unweathered bedrock; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03156. Thick horizontal bedding planes. Roots rarely penetrate rock material. Soft sandstone. Very few fine roots along bedding planes and in cracks.; few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; very few fine roots in cracks
    1Cr3—135 to 163 centimeters (53.1 to 64.2 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior, olive (5Y 5/3) interior, moist; unweathered bedrock; 1 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) fine faint mottles; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 78P03157. Thick horizontal bedding planes. Roots rarely penetrate rock material. Soft sandstone. Very few fine roots along the clevage planes and cracks.; few fine gypsum crystals concentrations; very few fine roots in cracks; few fine faint 2.5Y66 mottles