IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): EPPING
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957SD113005
  • User Pedon ID: S1957SD113005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957SD113005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2377
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37074
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 43.3899994
  • Std. Longitude: -102.3158340
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4, SE 1/4, 4.3 miles E of Sharp's corner, 310 feet S of the road and 100 feet, up the keel of the slope from 57-SD-57-5
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD113—Oglala Lakota
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD113—Shannon County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed (calcareous), mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - EPPING
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Epping
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/1957 (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

    BOGR2

    Bouteloua gracilis

    blue grama

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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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    45

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    A1c—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18623. Quartz grains finely divided and bleached; pink minerals and dark minerals common.
    C-Dca—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18624. Weak, medium, partially weathered bedded brule; quartz grains finely divided and bleached; pink minerals and dark minerals common.
    Drca—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; hard, friable; 1 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A18625. Moderate, medium and coarse, bedded Brule; quartz grains finely divided and bleached; pink minerals and dark minerals common.