IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Janesburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954SD105002
  • User Pedon ID: S1954SD105002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1954SD105002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2449
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37145
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 45.1066666
  • Std. Longitude: -102.1183319
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 2/10 mile S, 200 feet E of W 1/4 corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD105—Perkins
  • MLRA: 58B—Northern Rolling High Plains, Southern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD105—Perkins County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Aridic Natriborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Janesburg
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rhoades
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/7/1954 (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

    BOGR2

    CAFI

    NAVI4

    PASM

    SAPA5

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Carex filifolia

    Nassella viridula

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Salvia pachyphylla

    blue grama

    threadleaf sedge

    green needlegrass

    western wheatgrass

    blue sage

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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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    225

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy very fine sand; weak fine platy parts to weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19174
    A2—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19175
    B2—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay; moderate fine columnar parts to medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A19176
    B2ca—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky parts to fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; 21 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19177
    Csa—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silty clay loam, very fine sand; moderate coarse platy parts to very fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent lime masses and 21 percent salt masses; fragments; very slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A19178. Two separate 1-inch thick lenses of very fine sand.
    C1—64 to 99 centimeters (25.2 to 39.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; stratified very fine sand to silty clay loam; single grain, and very fine angular blocky; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent salt masses; fragments; slight effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A19179
    C2—99 to 137 centimeters (39.0 to 53.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; stratified silty clay loam to very fine sand; moderate coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A19180