IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duroc
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958SD095004
  • User Pedon ID: S1958SD095004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2493
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37189
  • Print Date: 3/13/2025

    • 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: 43.4647217
  • Std. Longitude: -101.1219406
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 32W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1525 feet E and 1500 feet S of the center
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD095—Mellette
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD095—Mellette County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Duroc
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - UNNAMED
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    A1p—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and gray (10YR 5/1) crushed, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; organic stains on rock fragments; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A19566. Some quartz finely divided bleached; minerals primarily quartz; temperature 68 degrees F; false, plow depth boundary.
    AB—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine and 3.0 tubular pores; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry, coats on faces of peds and clay films on vertical faces of peds and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores and organic stains on rock fragments; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19567. Some quartz finely divided bleached; minerals primarily quartz; temperature 68 degrees F.; continuous - phpvsfiid 195883; continuous - phpvsfiid 195884; patchy - phpvsfiid 195885; continuous - phpvsfiid 195883; continuous - phpvsfiid 195884; patchy - phpvsfiid 195885
    B21—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine pores; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and gray (10YR 5/1), dry, coats on faces of peds and clay films on vertical faces of peds and organic stains on rock fragments and iron stains on rock fragments; 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3) worm casts and 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19568. Quartz organically stained in the darker cast materials, iron stained with some finely divided bleached in the browner cast materials; minerals primarily quartz with a very few feldspar and iron-manganese concentrations; temperature 68 degrees F.; continuous - phpvsfiid 195888; continuous - phpvsfiid 195889; patchy - phpvsfiid 195890; continuous - phpvsfiid 195888; continuous - phpvsfiid 195889; patchy - phpvsfiid 195890
    B22—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate and strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine and medium pores; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, in root channels and/or pores and dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry, in root channels and/or pores and clay films on all faces of peds and organic stains on rock fragments and iron stains on rock fragments and dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and gray (10YR 5/1), dry, coats on faces of peds; 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3) worm casts and 3 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) worm casts and 1 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) worm casts and 1 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19569. Quartz organically stained in darker cast materials and iron stained with some bleached and some finely divided bleached in the matrix color casts and channels; minerals as in horizon above; temperature 66 degrees F.; continuous - phpvsfiid 185234; patchy - phpvsfiid 195893; patchy - phpvsfiid 195894; continuous - phpvsfiid 185234; patchy - phpvsfiid 195893; patchy - phpvsfiid 195894
    B3—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine and medium and 3.0 tubular pores; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and gray (10YR 5/1), dry, coats on faces of peds and brown (10YR 5/3), moist, in root channels and/or pores and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, in root channels and/or pores and iron stains on rock fragments and clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3) worm casts and 3 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) worm casts and 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19570. Quartz iron stained in matrix colored cast and fill materials and bleached and finely divided bleached in lighter cast and fill materials; minerals primarily quartz with increasing feldspar and iron-manganese concentrations; temperature 64 degrees F; an erosional pebble band separates this horizon from the one below.; patchy - phpvsfiid 185237; patchy - phpvsfiid 185238; patchy - phpvsfiid 185242; patchy - phpvsfiid 185237; patchy - phpvsfiid 185238; patchy - phpvsfiid 185242
    D1-B3ca—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 medium and 3.0 tubular pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds and clay films on upper surfaces of peds or rocks and iron stains on rock fragments and brown (10YR 5/3), moist, in root channels and/or pores and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, in root channels and/or pores; 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3) worm casts and 3 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) worm casts and 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) worm casts and 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) worm casts and 3 percent fine noncoherent cemented lime masses and 1 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19571. Quartz predominantly bleached and finely divided bleached in matrix colored casts and channels and iron stained in browner material; minerals as in horizon above; temperature 64 degrees F.; patchy - phpvsfiid 185243; patchy - phpvsfiid 185244; patchy - phpvsfiid 185243; patchy - phpvsfiid 185244
    D1ca—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; soft, friable; 0.5 medium and 0.5 tubular pores; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) worm casts and 1 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) worm casts and 1 percent carbonate threads and 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19572. Quartz predominantly bleached with some finely divided bleached; minerals as in horizon above; temperature 62 degrees F.
    D2ca(A1b—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 medium pores; 3 percent fine carbonate threads and 3 percent fine lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19573. Quartz predominantly bleached and some finely divided bleached; minerals as in above horizon; temperature 60 degrees F.
    D2ca1—122 to 147 centimeters (48.0 to 57.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam, very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 medium pores; 1 percent fine lime masses and 1 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19574. Quartz and minerals as in horizon above; temperature 58 degrees F; auger boundary.
    D2ca2—147 to 198 centimeters (57.9 to 78.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam, very fine sandy loam; soft, friable; 1 percent fine lime masses and 1 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19575. Not sampled; quartz and minerals as in horizon above; auger boundary.
    D2ca3—198 to 213 centimeters (78.0 to 83.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam, very fine sandy loam; soft, friable; 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19576. Not sampled; quartz and minerals as in above horizon.
    D3c(A1b)—213 to 244 centimeters (83.9 to 96.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silt loam; soft, friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19577. Not sampled; quartz and minerals as in horizon above.