IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glenham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011SD065002
  • User Pedon ID: S2011SD065002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7823
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55469
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 44.4385083
  • Std. Longitude: -100.2607889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 111N
  • Range: 78W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 1,136 feet south and 2,195 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD065—Hughes
  • MLRA: 53C—Southern Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RED—Redfield, South Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD065—Hughes County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Winter, Lance Howe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, 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 S2011SD065002-KSSL Pedon (Rec ID - 841081)
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenham
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/2023
  • Classifier - Justiniano, Wilfredo
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - thirteenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Glenham
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/2011
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Winter, Steve; Howe, Lance
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    gypsum accumulations

    0—33

    15—94

    33—94

    122—203

    —33—

    —79—

    —61—

    —81—
    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

    7

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    —

    530

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    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btk1—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine and medium pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 21 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btk2—61 to 94 centimeters (24.0 to 37.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine 5Y 4/6 (5Y 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 21 percent medium and coarse carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent fine and medium 5Y 4/6 (5Y 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cy—122 to 203 centimeters (48.0 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent fine and medium 5Y 4/6 (5Y 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent fine and medium gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; strong effervescence.; observed in pit, small