IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Harmony
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993SD115030A
  • User Pedon ID: 93SD115030A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0600
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65943
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 44.9261093
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3383331
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 117N
  • Range: 62W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 2400 feet W and 1000 feet N of SE corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD115—Spink
  • MLRA: 55B—Central Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD115—Spink County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Pachic Udic Argiborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 30
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Harmony
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harmony
  • Classificaton Date - 5/27/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/27/1993 (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
    • 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
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    A—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P04258
    Bt—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments. Lab sample # 93P04259. continuous - phpvsfiid 176041; continuous - phpvsfiid 176041