IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Epping
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10SD103-002
  • User Pedon ID: S10SD103-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1364
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43117
  • User Project ID: 23597
  • Project Name: Badlands National Park, South Dakota - Update
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 43.7033889
  • Std. Longitude: -102.5730278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 45
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 270m south and 325m east of NW corner
  • Map Unit: U192G—Epping-Keota-Badland complex, moist, 9 to 50 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: Westerman/Brady/Cruz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Aridic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Epping
  • PSC - 10 to 45 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/18/2016
  • Classifier - Westerman, James W.
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Epping
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Aridic Ustorthents
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 10 to 45 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/2010
  • 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
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Secondary - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from calcareous siltstone
  • Landscape: badlands
  • Landform: scarp slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent slight weathered siltstone, calcareous at 45cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Brule formation of the White River group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R064XY040NE Shallow

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/2010 (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
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
    • 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

    50

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular siltstone, calcareous fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06529
    AC—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; loam; massive parts to moderate fine granular; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent by volume angular siltstone, calcareous fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06530
    C—23 to 45 centimeters (9.1 to 17.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; extremely paragravelly loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots around fragments and 0.5 medium roots around fragments and 2.0 fine roots around fragments; 80 percent by volume angular siltstone, calcareous fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06531
    Cr—45 to 200 centimeters (17.7 to 78.7 inches); massive; fragments.