IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Whitewater
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982SD071006
  • User Pedon ID: 82SD071006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0833
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51619
  • 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: 43.7352791
  • Std. Longitude: -101.7724991
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 20E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 610 meters E and 101 meters N 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 Typic Torrerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Whitewater
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Whitewater
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Ustertic Cambor
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mesa or butte
  • 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 - 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

    cambic horizon

    salic horizon

    8—36

    53—81

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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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    724

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    41

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    391972

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior, gray (10YR 6/1) interior, dry; clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04296. common fine roots
    1Bw1—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, gray (10YR 6/1) interior, dry; clay; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04297. few fine roots
    1BC—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04298
    1Ckz—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; shaly clay; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent medium lime masses and 1 percent medium salt crystals; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04299. few medium soft masses of lime concentrations; few medium halite crystals concentrations
    1Cr—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior, light gray (10YR 7/1) interior, dry; unknown texture; massive; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 82P04300. Shale