IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pierre
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987SD071001
  • User Pedon ID: 87SD071001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0522
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59817
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024
  • 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: 43.9402771
  • Std. Longitude: -101.8480530
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1350 feet N and 2130 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Jackson County, SD.
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD071—Jackson
  • MLRA: 63A—Northern Rolling Pierre Shale Plains
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. 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 #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pierre
  • PSC - 25 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pierre
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Torrert
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—16

    16—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

    7

    744

    45

    1A1—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed, moist; clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02775. common fine and medium roots
    1A2—9 to 16 centimeters (3.5 to 6.3 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed, moist; clay; weak fine and medium blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02776. common fine and medium roots
    1Bw—16 to 34 centimeters (6.3 to 13.4 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed, moist; clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent nonintersecting slickensides on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02777. few nonintersecting slickensides surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots
    1Bk—34 to 56 centimeters (13.4 to 22.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02778. Few fine soft shale fragments.; few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; few intersecting slickensides surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots
    1C—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed, moist; clay; massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 37 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) iron stains on faces of peds; 1 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; 35 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02779. few fine and medium carbonate concretions concentrations; common iron stains surface features on faces of peds
    1Cr1—81 to 100 centimeters (31.9 to 39.4 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) interior, gray (5Y 6/1) interior, moist; 1 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02780. Few fine and medium accumulations of sulfate along fractures and seams. Texture is fine soft shale. Common stains of yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); few fine and medium carbonate concretions concentrations
    1Cr2—100 to 130 centimeters (39.4 to 51.2 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) interior, gray (5Y 6/1) interior, moist; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02781. Common stains of yellowish brown (10YR 5/4). Common fine and medium accumulations of sulfate along fractures and seams. Texture is medium and coarse soft shale.
    1Cr3—130 to 150 centimeters (51.2 to 59.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) interior, gray (5Y 6/1) interior, moist; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 87P02782. Texture is coarse soft shale. Common stains of yellowish brown (10YR 5/4). Common fine and medium accumulations of sulfate along fractures and seams.