IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kube
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012SD095004
  • User Pedon ID: S2012SD095004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 43.5955833
  • Std. Longitude: -101.0917056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42N
  • Range: 32W
  • Section: 23
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD095—Mellette County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Andy Oxford
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.0
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—30

    10—30

    30—120

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    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

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak thin platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bt—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear boundary.; observed in push tube
    BCk1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear boundary.; observed in push tube
    BCk2—51 to 78 centimeters (20.1 to 30.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear boundary.; observed in push tube
    BCk3—78 to 120 centimeters (30.7 to 47.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube