IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cavo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1950SD059002
  • User Pedon ID: S1950SD059002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1950SD059002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2357
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37054
  • 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: 44.7502785
  • Std. Longitude: -98.8908310
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 115N
  • Range: 67W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 0.2 mile W of SE corner; 14 paces N.; 7 paces W of fence corner; 1035 feet W and 75 feet N of the SE corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD059—Hand
  • MLRA: 55C—Southern Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD059—Hand County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A.J. Klingelhoets
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Leptic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cavo
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cavour
  • Classificaton Date - 8/24/1950
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/24/1950 (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

    DISTI

    PASM

    Distichlis

    Pascopyrum smithii

    saltgrass

    western wheatgrass

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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
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    2

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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine platy structure; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A18467
    A2—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A18468. Fine-blocky horizontal structure with some to numerous very fine vesicles.
    B2—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay; medium columnar parts to weak coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A18469. The coarse aggregates are massive.
    B3sa—41 to 46 centimeters (16.1 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; massive; firm; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A18470. Not sampled; contains visible quantities of salt.
    C1—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; massive; hard, friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A18471. There are large quantities of salt apparent in this horizon.
    C2—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine and 3 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) fine and medium faint mottles; massive; very hard, firm; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A18472. Few streaks of salt visible.