IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowry
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11SD117002
  • User Pedon ID: S11SD117002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11SD117002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/7/2025

    • 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: 44.4435444
  • Std. Longitude: -100.4613444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: South Dakota
  • MLRA: 63A—Northern Rolling Pierre Shale Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD117—Stanley County, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44100-D4—Oahe Dam, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Andy Oxford
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowry
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 9/29/2011
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/29/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CALO

    NAVI4

    PASM

    SCSC

    Calamovilfa longifolia

    Nassella viridula

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    prairie sandreed

    green needlegrass

    western wheatgrass

    little bluestem

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—64

    15—33

    33—140

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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

    2

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bw—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    Bk1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 25 percent coarse distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    Bk2—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Bk3—64 to 77 centimeters (25.2 to 30.3 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary.
    Akb—77 to 94 centimeters (30.3 to 37.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 8 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bkb—94 to 186 centimeters (37.0 to 73.2 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A'kb—186 to 200 centimeters (73.2 to 78.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.2 very fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence.