IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alcester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1951SD059009
  • User Pedon ID: S1951SD059009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2414
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37111
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 44.6347237
  • Std. Longitude: -98.8508301
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 113N
  • Range: 67W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 0.24 mile W of NE 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: C.A. Mogen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alcester
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ladelle
  • Classificaton Date - 8/22/1951
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/22/1951 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    A1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A18888
    B1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A18889
    A1b—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate granular structure; very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A18890
    C1—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak granular structure; friable; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A18891
    C2—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak granular structure; friable; 1 percent lime masses and 3 percent salt masses; fragments; slight effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A18892. Contains a moderate amount of segregated salt at between 35 and 39 inches.
    A1b2—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A18893