IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Interior
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09SD103-004
  • User Pedon ID: S2009SD103004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09SD103-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0720
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43205
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 43.8874278
  • Std. Longitude: -102.0565167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25
  • Range: 17E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 643m South and 237m East of NW corner
  • County: SD103—Pennington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Walt Schaefer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Aridic Ustifluvents
  • 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 - Interior
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Aridic Ustifluvents
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: badlands
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARCA13

    ELIN7

    MELIL

    Artemisia cana

    Elytrigia intermedia

    Melilotus

    silver sagebrush

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    sweetclover

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

    ochric epipedon

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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

    0

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    2540

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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N03317
    AC—4 to 26 centimeters (1.6 to 10.2 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N03318
    C1—26 to 47 centimeters (10.2 to 18.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N03319
    C2—47 to 84 centimeters (18.5 to 33.1 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N03320
    C3—84 to 124 centimeters (33.1 to 48.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N03321
    C4—124 to 200 centimeters (48.8 to 78.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 10N03322