IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): DeGrey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011SD065003
  • User Pedon ID: S2011SD065003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7824
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55470
  • 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: 44.3830389
  • Std. Longitude: -100.1306028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 111N
  • Range: 77W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 334 feet north and 545 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: HgA—Highmore-DeGrey silt loams, 0 to 2 percent slopesHgA—Highmore-DeGrey silt loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • 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, smectitic, mesic Typic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Copy of S2011SD065003-KSSL Pedon (Rec ID - 841084)
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - DeGrey
  • PSC - 20 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/25/2016
  • Classifier - Justiniano, Wilfredo
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - DeGrey
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Natrustolls
  • PSC - 20 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/2011
  • Classifier - Winter, Steve
  • 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: periglacial loess over fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/2011 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    natric

    noncoherent

    20 - 38

    - 18 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    albic horizon

    natric horizon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    salt accumulations

    lithologic discontinuity

    gypsum accumulations

    0—51

    8—20

    20—38

    20—51

    38—127

    38—127

    51—200

    127—200

    —51—

    —12—

    —18—

    —31—

    —89—

    —89—

    —149—

    —73—
    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

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    —

    499

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02031
    E—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak thin platy structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02032
    Btn1—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay; moderate medium columnar structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02033
    Btn2—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02034
    Btkz—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine salt masses and 3 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02035
    2Bkz—51 to 104 centimeters (20.1 to 40.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent fine masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent fine salt masses and 21 percent medium and coarse carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02036
    2BCkz—104 to 127 centimeters (40.9 to 50.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist; clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 3 percent medium and coarse yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02037
    2Cy—127 to 203 centimeters (50.0 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent fine and medium gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 21 percent fine and medium yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent fine gypsum threads; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 12N02038