IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Raber
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956SD059009
  • User Pedon ID: S1956SD059009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956SD059009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2445
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37141
  • 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: 44.2513885
  • Std. Longitude: -99.1263885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 109N
  • Range: 69W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 215 feet west and 0.2 mile south of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: ReB—Eakin-Raber complex, 2 to 6 percent slopesReB+—Raber-Eakin complex, undulating
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD059—Hand
  • MLRA: 53C—Southern Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RED—Redfield, South Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD059—Hand County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Copy of S1956SD059009-KSSL Pedon (Rec ID - 105647)
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Raber
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/6/2022
  • Classifier - Justiniano, Wilfredo
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Raber
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.01 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    Bouteloua gracilis

    blue grama

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    gypsum accumulations

    secondary carbonates

    0—36

    8—97

    36—130

    36—152

    —36—

    —89—

    —94—

    —116—
    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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    483

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    22.8

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19139. Quartz grains predominantly stained with some finely divided, bleached quartz grains also observed. Horizon temperature 80 degrees F.
    Bt—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry, coats on faces of peds and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A19140. Quartz grains predominantly stained with some bleached quartz grains and some finely divided, bleached quartz grains also observed. Horizon temperature 74 degrees F.; continuous - phpvsfiid 184492; continuous - phpvsfiid 184492
    Btk—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dry, coats on faces of peds and very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A19141. continuous - phpvsfiid 184495; continuous - phpvsfiid 184495; Quartz grains predominantly stained with some bleached quartz grains and some finely divided, bleached quartz grains also observed. Horizon temperature 75 degrees F.
    Btky1—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; weak and moderate medium prismatic parts to weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dry, coats on faces of peds and very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent noncoherent cemented salt masses and 21 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19142. Quartz grains predominantly stained with some bleached quartz grains also observed. Horizon temperature 74 degree F.; continuous - phpvsfiid 184498; continuous - phpvsfiid 184498
    Btky2—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable; clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent noncoherent cemented salt masses and 3 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19143. patchy - phpvsfiid 184499; patchy - phpvsfiid 184499; Quartz grains predominantly stained with some finely divided, bleached quartz grains also observed. Horizon temperature 69 degrees F.
    Bky—97 to 130 centimeters (38.2 to 51.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; clay loam; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks and 10 percent prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry, iron stains on faces of peds and 10 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron stains on faces of peds; 3 percent weakly coherent cemented carbonate concretions and 1 percent noncoherent cemented salt masses and 1 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19144. Quartz grains predominantly stained with some finely divided, bleached quartz grains also observed. Carbonate coats in stalactite-like formation. Horizon temperature 66 degrees F.
    Bk—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 10 percent prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry, iron stains on faces of peds and 10 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron stains on faces of peds; 1 percent coarse lime masses and 1 percent coarse weakly coherent cemented lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19145. Quartz grains predominantly stained with some finely divided, bleached quartz also observed. Horizon temperature 64 degrees F.