IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orella
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09SD103-003
  • User Pedon ID: S2009SD103003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09SD103-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0719
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43204
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 43.9814389
  • Std. Longitude: -102.2184889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 161m north and 17m east of SW corner
  • County: SD103—Pennington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roger Assmus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, calcareous, mesic, shallow Aridic 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 - Orella
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, smectitic, calcareous, mesic, shallow Aridic Haplustepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Landscape: badlands
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered shale, calcareous at 46cm with <10
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MELIL

    PASM

    Melilotus

    Pascopyrum smithii

    sweetclover

    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

    paralithic contact

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    7—22

    46—200

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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

    6

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    2700

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    0

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay; weak medium granular structure; hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03309
    Bk—7 to 22 centimeters (2.8 to 8.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), gray (10YR 6/1), moist; silty clay; weak medium prismatic structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N03310
    BCk—22 to 33 centimeters (8.7 to 13.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/1), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent coarse faint irregular strongly coherent cemented white (2.5Y 8/1), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N03311
    C—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/1), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; clay; massive; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume very angular ?-?-5 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03312
    Cr1—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1), light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist; massive; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03313, 10N03316
    Cr2—66 to 124 centimeters (26.0 to 48.8 inches); 60 percent white (2.5Y 8/1) and 40 percent white (5YR 8/1), 60 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/1) and 40 percent pinkish gray (5YR 7/2), moist; 1 percent 2.5Y (2.5Y fine prominent dendritic mottles; 1 percent fine prominent dendritic dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry, root sheaths with sharp boundaries in cracks; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N03314
    Cr3—124 to 200 centimeters (48.8 to 78.7 inches); 60 percent white (2.5Y 8/1) and 40 percent white (5YR 8/1), 60 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/1) and 40 percent pinkish gray (5YR 7/2), moist; 2 percent 2.5Y (2.5Y fine prominent dendritic mottles; 2 percent fine prominent dendritic dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry, root sheaths with sharp boundaries in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # 10N03315