IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hisega
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957SD081002
  • User Pedon ID: S1957SD081002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957SD081002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2482
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37178
  • 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: 44.3297234
  • Std. Longitude: -103.7377777
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 25 feet north, 50 feet east of gravel turnout road, west side of Highway 14A and 85.
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD081—Lawrence
  • MLRA: 62—Black Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD081—Lawrence County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. C. Westin and R. E. Radeke.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid, shallow Typic Eutroboralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: variant
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hisega
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - UNNAMED
  • Classificaton Date - 8/21/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/21/1957 (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

    JUNIP

    PICEA

    VERNO

    Juniperus

    Picea

    Vernonia

    juniper

    spruce

    ironweed

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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

    3

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    1798

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    45

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    Ao2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A19461. Spongy organic materials.
    Ao1—8 to 3 centimeters (3.1 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A19460. Forest litter.
    A2—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium platy parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; clay films on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19462. patchy - phpvsfiid 184856; patchy - phpvsfiid 184856
    A2&B2—23 to 31 centimeters (9.1 to 12.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silty clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; brown (10YR 5/3), moist, coats on faces of peds and very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, coats on faces of peds and clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19463. patchy - phpvsfiid 184859; patchy - phpvsfiid 184859
    B21—31 to 41 centimeters (12.2 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silty clay, clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; brown (10YR 5/3), moist, coats on faces of peds and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry, coats on faces of peds and clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19464. patchy - phpvsfiid 184860; patchy - phpvsfiid 184861; continuous - phpvsfiid 184862; patchy - phpvsfiid 184860; patchy - phpvsfiid 184861; continuous - phpvsfiid 184862
    B22—41 to 49 centimeters (16.1 to 19.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; clay; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) fine distinct and 1 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) fine distinct mottles; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; brown (10YR 5/3), moist, coats on faces of peds and very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, coats on faces of peds and clay films on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19465. patchy - phpvsfiid 184863; patchy - phpvsfiid 184864; continuous - phpvsfiid 184865; patchy - phpvsfiid 184863; patchy - phpvsfiid 184864; continuous - phpvsfiid 184865
    Dr&B23—49 to 54 centimeters (19.3 to 21.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; clay; 3 percent black (10YR 2/1) fine distinct and 3 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) fine distinct mottles; massive parts to weak medium angular blocky; very hard, very firm; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), dry, coats on faces of peds and clay films on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 40A19466. Merges into bedrock.; continuous - phpvsfiid 184868; continuous - phpvsfiid 184868
    Dr—54 to 54 centimeters (21.3 to 21.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 40A19467. Shale or slate bedrock.