IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SNOMO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970SD019004
  • User Pedon ID: S1970SD019004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1970SD019004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2458
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37154
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 44.6405144
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6880722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet south and 115 feet east of the west quarter corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD019—Butte
  • MLRA: 61—Black Hills Foot Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD019—Butte County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. T. Miller and P. R. Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Ustollic Camborthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SNOMO
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snomo
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/1970 (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

    ANGE

    CAINH2

    PASM

    Andropogon gerardii

    Carex inops ssp. heliophila

    Pascopyrum smithii

    big bluestem

    sun sedge

    western wheatgrass

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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

    8

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    914

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    0

    356

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    8.3

    21.7

    -4.4

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay; weak coarse platy parts to weak fine granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19247
    A12—5 to 14 centimeters (2.0 to 5.5 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19248
    A13—14 to 36 centimeters (5.5 to 14.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19249
    B2—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, moist; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19250
    B3—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay; 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19251
    C1—97 to 114 centimeters (38.2 to 44.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; 1 percent yellow (2.5Y 8/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19252. Shale fragments gray (10YR 5/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1) when moist.
    C2—114 to 127 centimeters (44.9 to 50.0 inches); yellow (5Y 8/6) and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and brown (10YR 5/3) and yellow (5Y 7/6), moist; clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 80 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19253. Brittle shale fragments.
    C3—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), black (N 2/0), moist; brittle; yellowish red (5YR 5/8), dry, coats on rock fragments and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, coats on rock fragments and reddish yellow (5YR 7/6), moist, coats on rock fragments; fragments. Lab sample # 40A19254. Texture, platy shale.; continuous - phpvsfiid 185705; continuous - phpvsfiid 185706; continuous - phpvsfiid 185707; continuous - phpvsfiid 185705; continuous - phpvsfiid 185706; continuous - phpvsfiid 185707