IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Northville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993SD115032
  • User Pedon ID: 93SD115032
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993SD115032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66192
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • 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: 44.6788902
  • Std. Longitude: -98.1738892
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 114N
  • Range: 61W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 1050 feet N and 1700 feet E of SW corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD115—Spink
  • MLRA: 55C—Southern Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD115—Spink County, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44098-F2—Lake Byron NW, South Dakota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Winter & Jim Millar
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Glossic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 32
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Northville
  • PSC - 0 to 0 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Northville
  • Classificaton Date - 9/8/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/8/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 96
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    KOELE

    Koeleria

    Junegrass

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    natric horizon

    0—0

    0—0

    —-

    —-

    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

    0

    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; ultra acid, pH 1.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00009
    E—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; weak thin platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; ultra acid, pH 1.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00010
    Btn1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay; moderate medium columnar, and moderate medium prismatic structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 very fine roots between peds; 0.0 very fine tubular pores; gray (10YR 5/1), dry, coats on tops of soil columns and clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; ultra acid, pH 1.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00011
    Btn2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 very fine roots between peds; 0.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; ultra acid, pH 1.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00012
    Btnk—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.0 very fine roots between peds; 0.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; ultra acid, pH 1.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00013
    Bky—79 to 122 centimeters (31.1 to 48.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silt loam; 1 percent gray (10YR 5/1) fine prominent mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent fine carbonate masses and 10 percent fine gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; strong effervescence; ultra acid, pH 1.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00014
    Ab—122 to 157 centimeters (48.0 to 61.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), black (N 2/0), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; ultra acid, pH 1.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00015
    Cyg—157 to 203 centimeters (61.8 to 79.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine prominent and 1 percent gray (10YR 5/1) fine distinct mottles; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses; 1 percent fine carbonate masses and 25 percent fine and medium gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; strong effervescence; ultra acid, pH 1.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 94P00016