IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cedarpass
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09SD103-001
  • User Pedon ID: S2009SD103001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09SD103-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0717
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43202
  • 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: 43.9711889
  • Std. Longitude: -102.2225889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 615 m North and 300 m West of SE corner
  • County: SD103—Pennington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roger Assmus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cedarpass
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium
  • Landscape: badlands
  • Landform: pediment
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGCR

    BRJA

    BUDA

    MELIL

    OPUNT

    Agropyron cristatum

    Bromus japonicus

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Melilotus

    Opuntia

    crested wheatgrass

    Japanese brome

    buffalograss

    sweetclover

    pricklypear

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

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    4—65

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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

    1

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    2750

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    95

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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03294
    Bw—4 to 16 centimeters (1.6 to 6.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03295
    Bk1—16 to 36 centimeters (6.3 to 14.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03296
    Bk2—36 to 65 centimeters (14.2 to 25.6 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03297
    BC—65 to 110 centimeters (25.6 to 43.3 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; clay loam; weak fine prismatic structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03298
    2Btb—110 to 134 centimeters (43.3 to 52.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; silty clay; weak fine prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03299
    2Bkb—134 to 180 centimeters (52.8 to 70.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay; weak fine prismatic structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 3 percent medium faint spherical strongly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03300
    2C—180 to 200 centimeters (70.9 to 78.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay; massive; moderately hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine irregular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03301