IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orella
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10SD103-001
  • User Pedon ID: S10SD103-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1365
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43118
  • User Project ID: 23597
  • Project Name: Badlands National Park, South Dakota - Update
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 43.8765778
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4365806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 97 M East and 335 M South of NW corner
  • Map Unit: ObE—Orella-Badland complex, 9 to 45 percent slopesU560F—Orella-Badland complex, 9 to 30 percent slopesObE—Orella-Badland complex, 9 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD103—Pennington
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD605—Custer and Pennington Counties, Prairie Parts, South DakotaSD612—Badlands National Park, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Cruz/Brady/Westerman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, calcareous, mesic, shallow Aridic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orella (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 3 to 47 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/18/2016
  • Classifier - Westerman, James W.
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orella (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, smectitic, calcareous, mesic, shallow Aridic Ustorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 3 to 47 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2010
  • Classifier - Westerman, James W.
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Dominant - perennial grass
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from claystone
  • Landscape: pediment badlands
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent slight weathered claystone at 47cm with 45 to <100
  • Geology: Chadron formation of the White River group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: J. Westerman, D. Brady, J. Cruz
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • 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
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

    C1

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    20

    3

    20

    47

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A

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    20

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    47

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    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

    ec meter, saturated paste

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    5

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    9

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    16

    21

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    47 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—3

    47—200

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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

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), pale yellow (5Y 7/3), dry; silty clay; 48 percent clay; weak coarse granular structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.2 fine roots throughout; few (0.5) fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 reversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 3 cm with a width of 1 cm that extend above the horizon; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N06532
    C1—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; parachannery clay; 52 percent clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; very high excavation difficulty; 0.3 very fine roots throughout; 0.2 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 reversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 9 cm with a width of 1 cm that extend below the horizon; 5 percent medium and coarse prominent cylindrical very weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in cracks and 10 percent medium and coarse prominent cylindrical very weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in cracks; 2 percent fine faint reticulate very weakly coherent cemented white (2.5Y 8/1) salt crystals with sharp boundaries between peds and 10 percent fine and medium prominent spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented white (2.5Y 8/1) salt masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume flat angular weakly coherent cemented 5-15-25 millimeter claystone fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N06533
    C2—20 to 47 centimeters (7.9 to 18.5 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; extremely parachannery clay; 54 percent clay; massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; very high excavation difficulty; 0.2 very fine roots around fragments; 2 percent medium and coarse prominent platy very weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries between peds and 3 percent medium and coarse faint platy very weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries between peds; 5 percent fine and medium prominent spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented salt masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; 70 percent by volume flat angular weakly coherent cemented 5-25-75 millimeter claystone fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N06534
    Cr—47 to 200 centimeters (18.5 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.