IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Jansen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013SD053001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013SD053001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2013SD053001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0304
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74463
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 43.1589400
  • Std. Longitude: -99.2567933
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 96N
  • Range: 71W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Pedon is located 84.6 miles South and 51.9 miles East of the Pierre MLRA Soil Survey Office in Pierre, SD.
  • Map Unit: JaB—Jansen loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD053—Gregory
  • MLRA: 66—Dakota-Nebraska Eroded Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD053—Gregory County, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43099-B3—Burke, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Oxford, N. Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jansen
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 40 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/11/2013
  • Classifier - A. Oxford
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium over sandy and gravelly alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/2013 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGCR

    Agropyron cristatum

    crested wheatgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    strongly contrasting particle size class

    abrupt textural change

    0—40

    40—71

    51—85

    51—85

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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

    2

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    647

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    264

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 40 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine and 1.0 medium and 3.0 fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01578; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—18 to 40 centimeters (7.1 to 15.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay loam; 55 percent sand; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and 1.0 medium and 2.0 fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01579; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—40 to 51 centimeters (15.7 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 50 percent sand; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine and 1.0 medium and 1.0 fine pores; 20 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01580; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 55 percent sand; 30 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine and 1.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01581; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2C1—71 to 85 centimeters (28.0 to 33.5 inches); variegated light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; gravelly coarse sand; 95 percent sand; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01582; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2C2—85 to 200 centimeters (33.5 to 78.7 inches); variegated light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; fine sand; 95 percent sand; 1 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 14N01583; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small