IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buska
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000SD081001
  • User Pedon ID: S2000SD081001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P1260
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 12756
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 44.1491661
  • Std. Longitude: -103.7669449
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet north and 1950 feet east of Southwest corner
  • Location Description: About 2 miles south and 1/2 mile west of Nahant SD
  • Map Unit: 12E—Buska-Rock outcrop complex, 10 to 40 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD081—Lawrence
  • MLRA: 62—Black Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD081—Lawrence County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dan Brady, W. Schaefer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, paramicaceous, superactive, frigid Inceptic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buska
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, paramicaceous, superactive, frigid Inceptic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 34 to 59 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/2000
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: schist derived from mica schist
  • Landscape: mountain slope on mountains
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent schist, mica
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • 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

    25

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Oe—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07355
    AE—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; channery silt loam; 38 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 13 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-75 millimeter schist, mica fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07356
    E—23 to 34 centimeters (9.1 to 13.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very channery silt loam; 35 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 59 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-75 millimeter schist, mica fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07357
    Bt—34 to 49 centimeters (13.4 to 19.3 inches); 90 percent dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), 90 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dry; extremely channery clay loam; 37 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 10 percent faint dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 65 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-75 millimeter schist, mica fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07358. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 211631; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 211631
    BC—49 to 76 centimeters (19.3 to 29.9 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; extremely channery loam; 46 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07359
    C1—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; extremely channery sandy loam; 56 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07360
    C2—99 to 150 centimeters (39.0 to 59.1 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), dry; extremely channery sandy loam; 56 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P07361
    Ck—150 to 230 centimeters (59.1 to 90.6 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), dry; extremely flaggy loamy sand; 73 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 2 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent medium and coarse prominent very weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries on bottom of rock fragments; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter. Lab sample # 00P07362