IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marmarth
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978SD063040
  • User Pedon ID: 78SD063040
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0542
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46096
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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 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 Aridic Argiborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 40
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marmarth
  • PSC - 21 to 39 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marmarth
  • 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: shoulder
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—10

    21—39

    39—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

    2

    —

    —

    1046

    —

    90

    36

    —

    —

    7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    397062

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    1A11—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03164. many fine and medium roots
    1A12—10 to 21 centimeters (3.9 to 8.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03165. many fine and medium roots
    1B2t—21 to 39 centimeters (8.3 to 15.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots; pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03166. common fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 213777; patchy - phpvsfiid 213777
    1B3ca—39 to 56 centimeters (15.4 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 30 percent fine lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03167. many fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine and medium roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 228550; patchy - phpvsfiid 228550
    1Cca—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03168. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots in cracks
    1Cr1—76 to 105 centimeters (29.9 to 41.3 inches);, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; unweathered bedrock; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; 11 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 # 78P03169. Soft sadnstone with thin layers of clay loam soill material 0.5 cm to 1.0 cm thick.; common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine gypsum crystals concentrations; very few fine roots in cracks
    1Cr2—105 to 125 centimeters (41.3 to 49.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior, light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior, dry; sand; 11 percent yellow (5Y 7/6) coarse mottles; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03170. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; very few fine roots in cracks; common coarse 5Y76 mottles
    1Cr3—125 to 165 centimeters (49.2 to 65.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior, light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior, dry; unweathered bedrock; 11 percent yellow (5Y 7/6) fine and medium mottles; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 78P03171. Soft sandstone interbedded with thin layers of clay and silty from 0.5 cm to 1.5 cm thick.; few very fine soft masses of lime concentrations; very few fine roots in cracks; common fine and medium 5Y76 mottles