IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Denby
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09SD103-002
  • User Pedon ID: S2009SD103002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09SD103-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0718
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43203
  • 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: 43.9742611
  • Std. Longitude: -102.2228389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 630m South and 317 m West of NE corner
  • County: SD103—Pennington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Walt Schaefer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Torrertic Haplustepts
  • 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 - Denby
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Torrertic Haplustepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium and/or residuum
  • Landscape: badlands
  • Landform: pediment
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/2009 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BRJA

    MELIL

    OPUNT

    PASM

    Bromus japonicus

    Melilotus

    Opuntia

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Japanese brome

    sweetclover

    pricklypear

    western wheatgrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

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    7—78

    37—78

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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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    90

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay; strong fine granular structure; extremely hard, very firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N03302
    Bk1—7 to 37 centimeters (2.8 to 14.6 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03303
    Bk2—37 to 78 centimeters (14.6 to 30.7 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine vesicular pores; 2 percent fine prominent spherical strongly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses with sharp boundaries throughout and 2 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, silica masses with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03304
    BC—78 to 92 centimeters (30.7 to 36.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03305
    C—92 to 113 centimeters (36.2 to 44.5 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silty clay loam; massive; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03306
    2Btb—113 to 123 centimeters (44.5 to 48.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03307
    2C—123 to 200 centimeters (48.4 to 78.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silty clay loam; massive; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 10N03308