IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rosebud
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957SD113012
  • User Pedon ID: S1957SD113012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2453
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37149
  • 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: 43.0427475
  • Std. Longitude: -102.9935913
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 48W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, NW 1/4, NE 1/4, 0.25 of a mile S of the NE corner and 0.3 of a mile W of the E field boundary
  • Location Description: maybe in R41W
  • 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: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rosebud
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 13 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/2018
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    paralithic contact

    0—33

    13—53

    23—89

    43—53

    89—100

    —33—

    —40—

    —66—

    —10—

    —11—
    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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    0

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; loam; weak fine granular parts to weak and moderate fine and medium platy structure; soft, very friable; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and gray (10YR 5/1), dry, coats on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A19207. Quartz grains predominantly lightly stained, some bleached; pink minerals common, very few dark minerals; false, plow depth boundary.
    Bt1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry, coats on faces of peds and clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19208. Quartz grains finely divided, predominantly lightly stained, some bleached; common pink minerals, very few dark minerals.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609952; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609952
    Bt2—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak and moderate fine granular parts to weak and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 3.0 very fine pores; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on faces of peds and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry, coats on faces of peds and clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19209. Quartz grains finely divided; predominantly lightly stained, some bleached; pink minerals common, very few dark minerals.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609953; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609954; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609955; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609953; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609954; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609955
    Bt3—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loam; weak and moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 very fine pores; clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19210. Quartz grains finely divided, predominantly lightly stained, some bleached; pink minerals common, very few dark minerals.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609956; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609956
    Bk—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; 3.0 very fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 21 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19211. Quartz grains finely divided and bleached; pink minerals common; slight increase of dark minerals.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609957; patchy - phpvsfiid 1609957
    C1—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak and moderate medium and coarse granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19212. Bedded Harrison with a few weathered fines; quartz grains finely divided and bleached; common pink minerals, further increase in dark minerals.
    C2—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive parts to moderate medium and coarse granular; soft, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19213. Weathered fines, bedded Harrison fragments; quartz grains finely divided and bleached; common pink minerals, dark minerals as horizon above.
    R—89 to 100 centimeters (35.0 to 39.4 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1), gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; very hard, very firm; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19214. Unweathered, bedded Harrison; quartz grains finely divided and bleached; common pink minerals, further increase of dark minerals.