IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Slickspot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978SD063042
  • User Pedon ID: 78SD063042
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0544
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46098
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 42
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Slickspot
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Borollic Natrargids
  • PSC - 3 to 17 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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

    3—77

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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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    397062

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    1A2—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; soft, very friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03182
    1B21t—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 fine and medium roots; slickensides (pedogenic) on vertical faces of peds and gray (10YR 6/1) on upper surfaces of peds or rocks; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03183. very few fine and medium roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 228560; continuous - phpvsfiid 228561; patchy - phpvsfiid 228560; continuous - phpvsfiid 228561
    1B22t—10 to 17 centimeters (3.9 to 6.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 fine and medium roots in cracks; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) slickensides (pedogenic) on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03184. Some roots penetrate peds; very few fine and medium roots in cracks; patchy - phpvsfiid 228562; patchy - phpvsfiid 228562
    1B3cacs—17 to 38 centimeters (6.7 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified and 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03185. Few roots penetrate peds; few fine gypsum crystals concentrations; few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; very few fine roots
    1C1cacs—38 to 52 centimeters (15.0 to 20.5 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified and 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03186. Few roots penetrate soil material; few fine gypsum crystals concentrations; few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; very few fine roots in cracks
    1C2cacs—52 to 77 centimeters (20.5 to 30.3 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified and 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03187. Few roots penetrate soil material; few fine gypsum crystals concentrations; few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; very few fine roots in cracks
    1Cr1—77 to 107 centimeters (30.3 to 42.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior, olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior, moist; unweathered bedrock; 0.1 fine roots; 55 percent yellow (5Y 7/6) oxide coats on horizontal faces of peds; 30 percent fine iron-manganese masses; 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03188. Soft fine sandstone with thin layers of clay and silty material 0.5 cm to 1.0 cm wide.; few fine gypsum crystals concentrations; many fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; many oxide coats surface features on horizontal faces of peds; very few fine roots
    1Cr2—107 to 169 centimeters (42.1 to 66.5 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) interior, dark gray (5Y 4/1) interior, moist; unweathered bedrock; 0.1 fine roots in cracks; 15 percent yellow (5Y 7/6) oxide coats on horizontal faces of peds; 1 percent coarse iron-manganese masses; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 78P03189. Soft fine sandstone. Bedding planes from 2.5 cm to 15 cm thick.; few coarse soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few oxide coats surface features on horizontal faces of peds; very few fine roots in cracks