IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982SD071007
  • User Pedon ID: 82SD071007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0834
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51620
  • 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: 43.8333321
  • Std. Longitude: -101.9277802
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 122 meters S and 66 meters W of the NW corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD071—Jackson
  • MLRA: 60A—Pierre Shale Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Meland and K.Emerson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Leptic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Weta
  • PSC - 8 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Weta
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Leptic Natrustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • 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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    natric horizon

    0—8

    8—48

    48—74

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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

    —

    —

    775

    —

    41

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    —

    —

    —

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    391972

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    1E—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine and medium platy, and weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04301. common fine roots
    1Bt1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; clay; moderate fine and medium columnar, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04302. many fine roots
    1Bt2—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); 50 percent gray (10YR 5/1) interior and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04303. common fine roots
    1Bt3—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) interior and 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, 50 percent gray (10YR 5/1) interior and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine salt masses and 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04304. few fine salt masses concentrations; few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots
    1BCz—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; silty clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 11 percent fine and medium salt masses and 11 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04305. common fine and medium salt masses concentrations; common fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations
    2Cz—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 11 percent fine and medium salt masses and 11 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04306. common fine and medium salt masses concentrations; common fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations
    2C—74 to 152 centimeters (29.1 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam, silt loam; massive; hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, pH meter. Lab sample # 82P04307