IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Highmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014SD129003
  • User Pedon ID: S2014SD129003D
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0413
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79579
  • 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: Nathan Jones
  • 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 - 20 to 44 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—44

    20—44

    44—68

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    —24—

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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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    360

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    Ap1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 15N02123; observed in push tube
    Ap1—2 to 3 centimeters (0.8 to 1.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02124; observed in push tube
    Ap2—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak thin platy structure; slightly hard, friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02125; observed in push tube
    Bt—20 to 44 centimeters (7.9 to 17.3 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; 5 percent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02126; observed in push tube
    Bk—44 to 68 centimeters (17.3 to 26.8 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; 2 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 2 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented gray (5Y 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 3 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 15N02127; observed in push tube