IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pierre
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987SD103001
  • User Pedon ID: 87SD103001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0525
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59820
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 43.9724998
  • Std. Longitude: -102.0500031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 17E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 195 feet N and 150 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Pennington County, SD.
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD103—Pennington
  • MLRA: 60A—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 100 cm.
  • 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 - 6/1/1987
  • 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 - crop 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    13—87

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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

    6

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    777

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    180

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    1Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) crushed, moist; clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02797
    1Bw1—13 to 35 centimeters (5.1 to 13.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) 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; 15 percent nonintersecting slickensides on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02798. few nonintersecting slickensides surface features on faces of peds
    1Bw2—35 to 58 centimeters (13.8 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) 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; 15 percent nonintersecting slickensides on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02799. few nonintersecting slickensides surface features on faces of peds
    1Bk—58 to 87 centimeters (22.8 to 34.3 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) 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; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on faces of peds; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02800. few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; few intersecting slickensides surface features on faces of peds
    1C—87 to 100 centimeters (34.3 to 39.4 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed, moist; shaly clay; massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 37 percent brown (10YR 4/3) manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; 1 percent medium carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02801. 65% by volume soft shale fragments.; few medium carbonate concretions concentrations; common manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on faces of peds
    1Cr1—100 to 122 centimeters (39.4 to 48.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, moist; 1 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02802. Texture is fine and medium soft shale. Few fine and medium accumulations of sulfate along fractures and seams.; few fine and medium carbonate concretions concentrations
    1Cr2—122 to 150 centimeters (48.0 to 59.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, moist; fragments. Lab sample # 87P02803. Texture is medium and coarse shale. Common fine and medium accumulations of sulfate along fractures and seams.