IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hoven
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2011SD117003
  • User Pedon ID: S2011SD117003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7825
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55471
  • Print Date: 1/24/2025

    • 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: 44.2874528
  • Std. Longitude: -100.3394333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 31E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 675 feet east and 1,750 feet north of the southwest corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD117—Stanley
  • MLRA: 63A—Northern Rolling Pierre Shale Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Winter, Lance Howe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Natraquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hoven
  • Classificaton Date - 12/12/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hoven
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Natraquolls
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/5/2011
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: pothole
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for long periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/5/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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
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    E—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine and medium pores; 3 percent fine gray (10YR 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 3 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02039
    Btn1—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dry; silty clay; strong medium columnar structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N02040
    Btn2—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), dry; silty clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular 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 # 12N02041
    Btkn1—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; silty clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02042
    Btkn2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; silty clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02043
    Bky1—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 3 percent fine gypsum threads; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N02044
    Bky2—107 to 203 centimeters (42.1 to 79.9 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; silty clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 3 percent fine gypsum threads; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 12N02045