IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Highmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014SD129003
  • User Pedon ID: S2014SD129003C
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0412
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79578
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 45.4600113
  • Std. Longitude: -100.0527743
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 123N
  • Range: 76W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: NW 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-D1—Akaska NE, 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 - 16 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/2014
  • 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: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot Baseline Length - 28

    • 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

    0—31

    16—69

    41—69

    —31—

    —53—

    —28—
    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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    360

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    Ap1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular 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 # 15N02118; observed in push tube
    Ap2—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02119; observed in push tube
    Bt1—16 to 31 centimeters (6.3 to 12.2 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; 5 percent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02120; observed in push tube
    Bt2—31 to 41 centimeters (12.2 to 16.1 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, 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; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02121; observed in push tube
    Btk—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; 3 percent clay films; 5 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 15N02122; observed in push tube