IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Soholt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S04SD103-001
  • User Pedon ID: S04SD103-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 43.9912500
  • Std. Longitude: -103.9690278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1500' east and 1650' south of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Site is about 9 miles west of Deerfield Lake, Pennington County, SD, on FS 294, or about one mile west of Redbank Spring campground; USGS Preacher Spring quadrangle

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dan Brady, Mike Ulmer
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Soholt
  • PSC - 14 to 59 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, cherty at 59cm with 45 to <100
  • Geology: Madison Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter chert, 10.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter limestone, cherty, 0.80 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter limestone, cherty, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter chert,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 28
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    59 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—32

    14—59

    59—

    —32—

    —45—

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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

    17

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    1999

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    120

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    0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/3) crushed, dry; gravelly silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and strong medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    14 to 32 centimeters (5.5 to 12.6 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) broken face and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) broken face gravelly silty clay; 45 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky, and strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine high-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent prominent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds and 45 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 281311; patchy - phpvsfiid 281312; continuous - phpvsfiid 281311; patchy - phpvsfiid 281312
    32 to 59 centimeters (12.6 to 23.2 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face and 40 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face, 60 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/3) broken face and 40 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) broken face, dry; gravelly silty clay; 45 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.8 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds and 40 percent distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 22 percent coarse prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, and white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 281313; patchy - phpvsfiid 281314; continuous - phpvsfiid 281313; patchy - phpvsfiid 281314
    59 to 203 centimeters (23.2 to 79.9 inches); very slow permeability; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small