IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Promise
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954SD117002
  • User Pedon ID: S1954SD117002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1954SD117002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2443
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37139
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 44.3736115
  • Std. Longitude: -100.9222260
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 26E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 570 feet E, 160 feet S of NW corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD117—Stanley
  • MLRA: 63A—Northern Rolling Pierre Shale Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD117—Stanley County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, mesic Udic Chromusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Promise
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Promise
  • Classificaton Date - 10/5/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/5/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    ANGE

    BOGR2

    NAVI4

    PASM

    Andropogon gerardii

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Nassella viridula

    Pascopyrum smithii

    big bluestem

    blue grama

    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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    180

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    A11—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; clay; strong very fine granular structure; hard; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A19124
    A12—4 to 8 centimeters (1.6 to 3.1 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A19125
    B1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A19126
    B2—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium prismatic parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; slight effervescence; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A19127
    B2ca—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; 1 percent white (5Y 8/1) fine prominent mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium prismatic parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 1 percent spherical noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A19128
    B3sa1—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; massive parts to weak very fine angular blocky; extremely hard, very firm; 1 percent lime masses and 21 percent salt masses; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A19129
    B3sa2—94 to 117 centimeters (37.0 to 46.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and gray (5Y 5/1), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; massive parts to weak very fine angular blocky; extremely hard, very firm; 21 percent salt masses; fragments; slight effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A19130
    C1—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; massive; very hard, firm; 1 percent salt masses; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19131