IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Highmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011SD065001
  • User Pedon ID: S2011SD065001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7822
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55468
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024
  • 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: 44.3424278
  • Std. Longitude: -99.9952750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 110N
  • Range: 76W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1,437 feet north and 2,067 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD065—Hughes
  • MLRA: 53C—Southern Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Winter, Lance Howe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Copy of S2011SD065001-KSSL Pedon (Rec ID - 841080)
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Highmore
  • PSC - 20 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/2011
  • Classifier - Winter, Steve
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty drift over fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    1

    514

    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02020
    Bt—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02021
    Bk1—53 to 94 centimeters (20.9 to 37.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine pores; 21 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02022
    Bk2—94 to 140 centimeters (37.0 to 55.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine and medium pores; 21 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02023
    2C—140 to 203 centimeters (55.1 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist; clay loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 12N02024