IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gurney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001SD033001
  • User Pedon ID: S2001SD033001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001SD033001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0263
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14418
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 43.6579400
  • Std. Longitude: -103.7920000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 2350 feet north and 1150 feet east of north west corner
  • Map Unit: Q0658D—Rockerville-Gurney complex, 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD033—Custer
  • MLRA: 62—Black Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD607—Custer and Pennington Counties Area, Black Hills Parts, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43103-F7—Jewel Cave, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WTS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gurney
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 35 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2001
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/2001 (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

    ROSA5

    SALVI

    SCSC

    Rosa

    Salvia

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    rose

    sage

    little bluestem

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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

    8.5

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    1252

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    115

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    A1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; sandy loam, loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01245
    A2—7 to 35 centimeters (2.8 to 13.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; sandy loam, loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01246
    Bt—35 to 55 centimeters (13.8 to 21.7 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist; loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01247
    Btk—55 to 65 centimeters (21.7 to 25.6 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist; loam, silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium and coarse prominent threadlike iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 02N01248
    2Ck—65 to 84 centimeters (25.6 to 33.1 inches); 15 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8), 15 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and red (2.5YR 4/8), moist; very gravelly fine sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 60 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, carbonate coats on rock fragments; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01249
    2R—84 centimeters (33.1 inches); light red (2.5YR 6/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 02N01250