IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Virkula
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958SD081002
  • User Pedon ID: S1958SD081002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2489
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37185
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 44.3005562
  • Std. Longitude: -103.8013916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: On about the S 1/4 line
  • Location Description: N of highway 85 - 150 feet E and 150 feet S of target line at Lead Rod and Gun Club target range.
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD081—Lawrence
  • MLRA: 62—Black Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD081—Lawrence County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Eutroboralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: variant
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Virkula
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - UNNAMED
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.01 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

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    1768

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    180

    610

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    Ao1(F)—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A19530. Partially decomposed pine needles and twigs.
    Ao2(H)—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19531. Black, spongy organic matter.
    A2—8 to 21 centimeters (3.1 to 8.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19532. patchy - phpvsfiid 185316; patchy - phpvsfiid 185316
    B1—21 to 31 centimeters (8.3 to 12.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19533. continuous - phpvsfiid 185317; continuous - phpvsfiid 185317
    B2—31 to 56 centimeters (12.2 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; clay films on faces of peds and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19534. continuous - phpvsfiid 185318; continuous - phpvsfiid 185318
    B2-Dr—56 to 61 centimeters (22.0 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; clay films on faces of peds and brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry, coats on faces of peds and brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19535. The horizon is fractured bedrock in part with the soil in old root channels.; continuous - phpvsfiid 185320; continuous - phpvsfiid 185321; continuous - phpvsfiid 185322; continuous - phpvsfiid 185320; continuous - phpvsfiid 185321; continuous - phpvsfiid 185322
    61 to 61 centimeters (24.0 to 24.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A19536. Yellowish-brown to reddish yellow shaly sandstone.