IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairburn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985SD103008
  • User Pedon ID: S1985SD103008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985SD103008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0648
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56914
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 43.7266655
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4736099
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet N and 900 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: The site is about 4 miles east and 3.5 miles south of Senic SD.
  • Map Unit: FhE—Fairburn-Badland complex, 9 to 40 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD103—Pennington
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD606—Custer and Pennington Counties Area, Prairie Parts, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43102-F4—Imlay, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert D. Nielsen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Aridic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairburn (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/14/2014
  • Classifier - C.J. Heidt
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairburn
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: very fine grained fine-loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and/or mudstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dissected plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 38cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1985 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOCU

    BOGR2

    CAEL2

    CAFI

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Carex eleocharis

    Carex filifolia

    sideoats grama

    blue grama

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    threadleaf sedge

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    38 - 152

    - 114 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic materials

    0—10

    38—152

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    —114—
    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

    21

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    847

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    130

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; clay loam; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P3350
    AC—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P3351
    C—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, moist; clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P3352. 10 percent soft, very fine grained sandstone, fragments by volume.
    Cr—38 to 152 centimeters (15.0 to 59.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, moist; bedrock; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 85P3353. Bedrock is very fine grained sandstone. Lab texture is loam.