IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Jerauld
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971SD065003
  • User Pedon ID: S1971SD065003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1971SD065003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2507
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37203
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 44.5066681
  • Std. Longitude: -99.8450012
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 112N
  • Range: 75W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 2115 feet south and 25 feet east of fence in NW corner
  • Map Unit: CdA—Cavo-Demky silt loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD065—Hughes
  • MLRA: 53C—Southern Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RED—Redfield, South Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD065—Hughes County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P. R. Johnson and M. W. Smalley.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Leptic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Copy of S1971SD065003-KSSL Pedon (Rec ID - 105651)
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Jerauld
  • PSC - 5 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/20/2023
  • Classifier - Justiniano, Wilfredo
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jerauld
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    PASM

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Pascopyrum smithii

    blue grama

    western wheatgrass

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    natric

    noncoherent

    5 - 23

    - 17 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    natric horizon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    salt accumulations

    0—23

    5—23

    5—23

    23—152

    48—152

    —23—

    —18—

    —18—

    —129—

    —104—
    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

    1

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    406

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    7.8

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    E—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19682
    Btn1—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate coarse columnar parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on tops of soil columns; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19683. continuous - phpvsfiid 196100; continuous - phpvsfiid 196100
    Btn2—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19684
    Btn3—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine salt masses; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19685
    Bk—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine and medium salt masses and 1 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19686
    Bkz1—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine and medium lime masses and 1 percent fine and medium salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19687
    Bkz2—64 to 119 centimeters (25.2 to 46.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay; massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21 percent fine salt masses and 21 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19688
    Bkz3—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); clay; fragments.