IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pierre
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954SD055001
  • User Pedon ID: S1954SD055001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1954SD055001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2434
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37130
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 44.4336128
  • Std. Longitude: -101.2552795
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 24E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 0.25 mile N of SW corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD055—Haakon
  • MLRA: 63A—Northern Rolling Pierre Shale Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD055—Haakon County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Torrerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pierre
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pierre
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: knoll
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/1954 (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

    NAVI4

    PASM

    Nassella viridula

    Pascopyrum smithii

    green needlegrass

    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    90

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), black (2.5Y 2/1), moist; clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to strong very fine granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A19053
    A12—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist; clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A19054
    B21—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), moist; clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium prismatic parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A19055
    B22—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), moist; clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium prismatic parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; 1 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A19056. There is a distinct continuous sheen on the peds at from 5 to 18 inches. Few fine prominent red spots of weathered concretions and fragments of hard reddish-brown concretions throughout the profile.
    CDsa—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak and moderate coarse platy structure; extremely hard, firm; 1 percent carbonate concretions and 1 percent salt masses; fragments; very slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A19057. Texture is shaly clay.
    D—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist; clay; strong coarse platy structure; extremely hard; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), dry, coats; threadlike salt masses; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A19058. Texture is clay shale.