IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Athelwold
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987SD011008
  • User Pedon ID: 87SD011008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0385
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61489
  • 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: 44.5133324
  • Std. Longitude: -96.9775009
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 112N
  • Range: 51W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2580 feet W and 325 feet S of NE corner
  • Location Description: Brookings County, SD.
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD011—Brookings
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bruce Kunze
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Udic Haploborolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Athelwold
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Waubay
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Pachic Udic Haploboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    2

    511

    135

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 roots; 0.5 pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02102. common roots
    A—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 roots; 2.5 pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02103. 50% worm worked; common roots
    Bw1—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 2.5 pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02104. 25% worm worked; few roots
    Bw2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 2.5 pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02105. 10% worm worked; few roots
    Bk1—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; clay loam; 1 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 2.5 pores; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 11 percent fine spherical carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02106. 10% worm worked; common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few roots; few fine distinct 10YR61 mottles
    Bk2—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; loam; very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and 11 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 2.5 pores; 11 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 11 percent fine spherical carbonate masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02107. 5% worm worked; common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few roots; common fine distinct 10YR61 mottles
    C1—97 to 124 centimeters (38.2 to 48.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), dry; loamy sand; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 2.5 pores; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02108. dominantly non-calcareous but some parts calcareous; few roots
    2C1—124 to 165 centimeters (48.8 to 65.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and gray (10YR 6/1) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; clay loam; 11 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine prominent mottles; massive; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02109. common vertical wedges of loamy sand; few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common fine prominent 2.5Y54 mottles
    2C2—165 to 244 centimeters (65.0 to 96.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; clay loam; massive; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 89P02110