IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pierre
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984SD055012
  • User Pedon ID: 84SD055012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0725
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54968
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 44.1841660
  • Std. Longitude: -101.6322250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 560 feet north and 1300 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD055—Haakon
  • MLRA: 63A—Northern Rolling Pierre Shale Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard L. Schlepp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Torrerts
  • 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 - Pierre
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pierre
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Torrert
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P04013
    1Bw—10 to 43 centimeters (3.9 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P04014. few intersecting slickensides surface features
    1Bk—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior, olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 37 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 11 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04015. Few small fragments of shale.; common fine and medium lime concretions concentrations; few intersecting slickensides surface features; common intersecting slickensides surface features
    1C—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) interior, olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior and olive (5Y 4/3) interior, moist; clay; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04016. Shale fragments make up 40 to 50 percent by volume.; few fine lime concretions concentrations
    1Cr—76 to 153 centimeters (29.9 to 60.2 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/3) interior, pale olive (5Y 6/3) interior and olive (5Y 5/3) interior, moist; weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 84P04017. Texture is shale; common distinct stains of yellowish brown.