IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Highmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014SD129002
  • User Pedon ID: S2014SD129002A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0405
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79571
  • 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: 45.5434066
  • Std. Longitude: -100.0563922
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 124N
  • Range: 76W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Map Unit: C720B—Highmore silt loam, cool, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD129—Walworth
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD129—Walworth County, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45100-E1—Selby, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Oxford
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Highmore
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 15 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/2014
  • Classifier - A. Oxford
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glacial silty drift
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/28/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    gypsum accumulations

    salt accumulations

    0—23

    15—23

    23—120

    120—150

    120—150

    —23—

    —8—

    —97—

    —30—

    —30—
    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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    270

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    Ap1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak thick platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 15N02076; observed in push tube
    Ap1—2 to 6 centimeters (0.8 to 2.4 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak thick platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02077; observed in push tube
    Ap2—6 to 15 centimeters (2.4 to 5.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) medium roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02078; observed in push tube
    Bt—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; 5 percent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02079; observed in push tube
    Bk1—23 to 72 centimeters (9.1 to 28.3 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; 10 percent coarse prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02080; observed in push tube
    Bk2—72 to 120 centimeters (28.3 to 47.2 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented black (5Y 2.5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 5-10-15 millimeter iron-manganese concretions fragments observed by visual inspection method and 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02081; observed in push tube
    BCkyz—120 to 150 centimeters (47.2 to 59.1 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented black (5Y 2.5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 2 percent medium prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 1 percent fine faint irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented gypsum crystals, unspecified with clear boundaries in matrix and 2 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter iron-manganese concretions fragments observed by visual inspection method and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 15N02082; observed in push tube