IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cactusflat
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982SD071005
  • User Pedon ID: 82SD071005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0832
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51618
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 43.8541679
  • Std. Longitude: -101.6624985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 578 meters N and 148 meters E of the SW corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD071—Jackson
  • MLRA: 60A—Pierre Shale Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Schlepp and B. Nielsen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Torrertic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cactusflat
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cactusflat
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Torriorthentic Haplu
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1982 (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

    cambic horizon

    salic horizon

    13—43

    76—152

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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

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    750

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    41

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    391972

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    1Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04289. many fine roots
    1Bw1—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04290. few to common fine roots
    1Bw2—31 to 43 centimeters (12.2 to 16.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04291
    1BC—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); 50 percent gray (10YR 5/1) interior and 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, 50 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04292
    2C—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04293
    2Cz—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, moist; stratified silt loam to silty clay loam; massive; hard, friable; 2 percent salt masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04294. few to common salt masses concentrations
    2C—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, moist; stratified silt loam to silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 82P04295