IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Capa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013SD085001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013SD085001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2013SD085001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0306
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74465
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 43.9481750
  • Std. Longitude: -99.5938517
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 106N
  • Range: 73W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Pedon is located 30 miles south and 35.5 miles east of the Pierre Soil Survey Office in Pierre, SD.
  • Map Unit: CpA—Capa silt loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD085—Lyman
  • MLRA: 63B—Southern Rolling Pierre Shale Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD085—Lyman County, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43099-H5—Reliance, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Jones, A. Oxford
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, mesic Leptic Vertic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Capa
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, smectitic, mesic Leptic Vertic Natrustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 4 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2013
  • Classifier - A. Oxford
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium derived from shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: swale on plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Ksat Class Upper: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R063BY015SD Thin Claypan Sep 3 2013 A. Oxford

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/2013 (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
  • Current Weather - overcast
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGCR

    BOGR2

    BROMU

    BUDA

    PASM

    Agropyron cristatum

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Bromus

    Buchloe dactyloides

    Pascopyrum smithii

    crested wheatgrass

    blue grama

    brome

    buffalograss

    western wheatgrass

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

    albic horizon

    mollic epipedon

    natric horizon

    argillic horizon

    gypsum accumulations

    salt accumulations

    secondary carbonates

    0—4

    0—38

    4—38

    4—38

    38—203

    38—203

    38—203

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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

    1

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    E—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; 20 percent sand; 10 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (5.0) very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine pores; 2 reversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 4 cm with a width of 1 cm that extend above the horizon; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01591; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Btn1—4 to 15 centimeters (1.6 to 5.9 inches);, very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; clay; 3 percent sand; 65 percent clay; moderate coarse columnar structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and 0.0 medium and 3.0 fine and 0.0 coarse pores; 2 reversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 9 cm with a width of 1 cm that extend above and below the horizon; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01592; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1242481; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1242481
    Btn2—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; clay; 3 percent sand; 65 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and 0.0 medium and 1.0 fine and 0.0 coarse pores; 2 reversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 15 cm with a width of 1 cm that extend below the horizon; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01593; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1242482; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1242482
    Bkyz—38 to 113 centimeters (15.0 to 44.5 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; 3 percent sand; 60 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 very fine and 0.0 medium and 0.0 fine and 0.0 coarse pores; 2 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented gypsum masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 2 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented salt masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01594; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BCkyz1—113 to 173 centimeters (44.5 to 68.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 58 percent clay; structureless massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 very fine and 0.0 medium and 0.0 fine and 0.0 coarse pores; 2 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented gypsum masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 2 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented salt masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01595; very moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BCkyz2—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 58 percent clay; structureless massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 very fine and 0.0 medium and 0.0 fine and 0.0 coarse pores; 2 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented gypsum masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 2 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented salt masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 8 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-10-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 14N01596; very moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry