IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Highmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009SD023001
  • User Pedon ID: S2009SD023001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7826
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55472
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 43.0766944
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4723611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 65W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 1,525 feet west and 1,800 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD023—Charles Mix
  • MLRA: 55C—Southern Black Glaciated Plains
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RED—Redfield, South Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD023—Charles Mix County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Winter, Lance Howe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Copy of S2009SD023001-KSSL Pedon (Rec ID - 841083)
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Highmore
  • PSC - 15 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/2009
  • Classifier - Winter, Steve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty drift over fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/30/2009 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—38

    15—58

    58—117

    117—203

    —38—

    —43—

    —59—

    —86—
    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
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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (21.0) fine and medium roots; common (3.0) fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02046
    Bt1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (21.0) fine and medium roots; common (3.0) fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02047
    Bt2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (3.0) fine roots; few (1.0) fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02048
    Bk1—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (3.0) fine roots; few (1.0) fine pores; 21 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02049
    Bk2—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (1.0) fine roots; few (1.0) fine pores; 1 percent fine gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron; 3 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02050
    2C1—117 to 150 centimeters (46.1 to 59.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; structureless massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (1.0) fine roots; 1 percent fine gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 1 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume mixed fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02051
    2C2—150 to 203 centimeters (59.1 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; structureless massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent fine gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 3 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume mixed fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 12N02052