IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976SD081009
  • User Pedon ID: S1976SD081009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1976SD081009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2528
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37224
  • 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: 44.1736107
  • Std. Longitude: -103.7383347
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 1,575 feet north and 1,180 feet west of the SE corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD081—Lawrence
  • MLRA: 62—Black Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD081—Lawrence County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Arvid Meland
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, micaceous, frigid Typic Eutroboralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Buska
  • PSC - 46 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buska
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1976 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BETUL

    Betula

    birch

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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

    6

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    559

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    4.4

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    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A19823. Forest litter and partially decomposed forest litter.
    A1—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 21.0 roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19824
    A21—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 3.0 roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19825
    A22—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 roots; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19826
    B2t/A2—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; channery silt loam; very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, coats on faces of peds and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 40A19827
    B2t/A2—74 to 74 centimeters (29.1 to 29.1 inches); weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 roots; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19827
    B2t—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 roots; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19828
    B3—102 to 117 centimeters (40.2 to 46.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 roots; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A19829
    C—117 to 155 centimeters (46.1 to 61.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; very channery silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A19830