IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): KOTO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1951SD115004
  • User Pedon ID: S1951SD115004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1951SD115004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2464
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37160
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 45.1052780
  • Std. Longitude: -98.6936111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 119N
  • Range: 65W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 0.1 mile S and 0.15 mile E of W 1/4 corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD115—Spink
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD115—Spink County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.A. Mogen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, frigid Argiaquic Argialbolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - KOTO
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tetonka
  • Classificaton Date - 8/23/1951
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/23/1951 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    PASM

    POA

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Poa

    western wheatgrass

    bluegrass

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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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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak medium platy, and massive; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A19295
    A2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silt loam; 21 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine distinct and 21 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct and 21 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) fine distinct mottles; weak medium platy, and massive; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A19296
    B21—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); black (2.5Y 2/1) exterior and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior, dry; clay; strong fine prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A19297
    B22—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) exterior and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; clay; 21 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) fine distinct mottles; strong fine prismatic parts to medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A19298
    Cca—64 to 109 centimeters (25.2 to 42.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) exterior and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) exterior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and white (10YR 8/1) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 21 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19299
    C—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) and dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2), light gray (5Y 7/2) and very pale brown (10YR 8/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dry; clay loam; 3 percent white (10YR 8/1) medium prominent and 3 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm; 1 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19300
    152 to 305 centimeters (59.8 to 120.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A19301. Not sampled. Glacial till sampled at one-foot intervals for analyses of salt and pH.