IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Denby
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982SD103012
  • User Pedon ID: 82SD103012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0829
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51616
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 43.8222237
  • Std. Longitude: -102.1999969
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 61 meters W and 53 meters S of the NE corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD103—Pennington
  • MLRA: 60A—Pierre Shale Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Meland and J. Oertly
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Ustertic Camborthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Denby
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Denby
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Ustollic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • 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: terrace—stream or lake
  • 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

    8—56

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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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    790

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    41

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    397512

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay; weak fine granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04274
    1Bw1—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04275
    1Bw2—15 to 56 centimeters (5.9 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P04276
    1BC—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P04277
    1C—66 to 152 centimeters (26.0 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter. Lab sample # 82P04278. 10YR 72 clay loam with thin layers of silt loam and loam. Thin bedding planes evident.