IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mobridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009SD023002
  • User Pedon ID: S2009SD023002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7827
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55473
  • 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: 43.0774722
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4724167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 65W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 1,500 feet west and 1,575 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: HhB—Highmore silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesHhB—Highmore-Eakin silt loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • 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 Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Copy of S2009SD023002-KSSL Pedon (Rec ID - 841085)
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mobridge
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/30/2009
  • 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: periglacial loess over fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: swale
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • 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—86

    23—86

    86—127

    173—203

    —86—

    —63—

    —41—

    —30—
    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

    1

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    551

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 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 # 12N02053
    Bt1—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (3.0) fine and medium roots; common (3.0) fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02054
    Bt2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and 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 # 12N02055
    Bk1—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (1.0) fine roots; common (3.0) fine pores; 21 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02056
    Bk2—104 to 127 centimeters (40.9 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (1.0) fine roots; few (1.0) fine pores; 1 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02057
    C—127 to 173 centimeters (50.0 to 68.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; structureless massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent fine light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02058
    2C—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; clay loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; 3 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent fine pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron; 2 percent by volume mixed fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 12N02059