IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Onita
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015SD009002
  • User Pedon ID: S2015SD009002A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0403
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82583
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 42.8301700
  • Std. Longitude: -98.0820000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 61W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4
  • Map Unit: HtA—Homme-Onita-Tetonka complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD009—Bon Homme
  • MLRA: 55C—Southern Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD009—Bon Homme County, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42098-G1—Niobrara, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Jones; A. Oxford
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, smectitic, mesic Pachic 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 - Onita
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 16 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/2015
  • 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: locally transported fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot Baseline Length - 35

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: N. Jones; J. Hemenway; S. Boltz; A. Oxford
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row 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—61

    16—75

    61—103

    —61—

    —59—

    —43—
    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

    60

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    359

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; soft, very friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N07673; observed in push tube
    Ap—5 to 16 centimeters (2.0 to 6.3 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; soft, very friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N07674; observed in push tube
    Bt1—16 to 35 centimeters (6.3 to 13.8 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N07675; observed in push tube
    Bt2—35 to 61 centimeters (13.8 to 24.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N07676; observed in push tube
    Btk—61 to 75 centimeters (24.0 to 29.5 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N07677; observed in push tube
    Bk—75 to 103 centimeters (29.5 to 40.6 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 20 percent coarse prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N07678; observed in push tube
    C—103 to 152 centimeters (40.6 to 59.8 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable; 5 percent medium prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent coarse prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented gray (N 6/), moist, masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 15 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, 3n. Lab sample # 16N07679; observed in push tube