IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Samsil
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010SD103008
  • User Pedon ID: S2010SD103008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0097
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40030
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 43.9022778
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4225556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 399m West and 639m South of NE corner
  • County: SD103—Pennington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Westerman, J. Cruz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, calcareous, mesic, shallow Aridic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Samsil
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, smectitic, calcareous, mesic, shallow Aridic Ustorthents
  • PSC - 6 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/28/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: shale, unspecified at 41cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/28/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    32

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    826

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    250

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay; 42 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and strong very fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 medium roots; 4.0 very fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00464
    C1—6 to 22 centimeters (2.4 to 8.7 inches); 60 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2) and 40 percent olive (5Y 4/3), 60 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and 40 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; parachannery silty clay; 40 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots; 3.0 very fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00465
    C2—22 to 41 centimeters (8.7 to 16.1 inches); 65 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2) and 25 percent olive (5Y 4/3), 65 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and 25 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; extremely parachannery silty clay; 47 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine pores; 10 percent masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00466
    Cr—41 to 200 centimeters (16.1 to 78.7 inches); massive; fragments.