IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Capa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015SD075001
  • User Pedon ID: S2015SD075001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0184
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87630
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 43.9095611
  • Std. Longitude: -100.9559444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 26E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4; 2417 feet East and 395 fee North of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Pedon is located 3.3 miles west and 1.5 miles north of the town of Okaton, SD. It is within a 150 foot radius of the OSD type location.
  • Map Unit: CpA—Capa silt loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD075—Jones
  • MLRA: 63A—Northern Rolling Pierre Shale Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD075—Jones County, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43100-H8—Okaton, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Oxford; N. Jones; R. Chavez
  • 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
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Capa
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, smectitic, mesic Leptic Vertic Natrustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 3 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2015
  • Classifier - A. Oxford
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Current Crop - wheat, winter
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium derived from shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: swale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: A. Oxford; N. Jones; R. Chavez
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    natric

    moderately coherent

    3 - 54

    - 51 -

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

    natric horizon

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    salt accumulations

    secondary carbonates

    gypsum accumulations

    3—54

    3—31

    3—54

    3—200

    31—200

    31—200

    —51—

    —28—

    —51—

    —197—

    —169—

    —169—
    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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    —

    —

    —

    320

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    Ap—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine vesicular and common (2.0) fine vesicular pores; 25 irreversible crust related cracks per meter at a depth of 1 cm with a width of 0.5 cm; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N00516; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Btnz1—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches);, very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; silty clay; 42 percent clay; weak coarse columnar parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) medium roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine vesicular and few (1.0) medium vesicular and few (1.0) fine vesicular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N00517; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1440073; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1440073
    Btnz2—10 to 31 centimeters (3.9 to 12.2 inches);, very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; clay; 65 percent clay; weak coarse columnar structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) medium roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine vesicular and few (1.0) medium vesicular and few (1.0) fine vesicular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N00518; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1440074; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1440074
    Btknyz—31 to 54 centimeters (12.2 to 21.3 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; 65 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine vesicular and few (1.0) fine vesicular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 3 percent fine faint irregular weakly coherent cemented gypsum crystals, unspecified with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented salt 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; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N00519; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1440075; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1440075
    Bkyz1—54 to 101 centimeters (21.3 to 39.8 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; 60 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine vesicular and common (3.0) fine vesicular pores; 10 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent medium faint irregular weakly coherent cemented gypsum crystals, unspecified with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N00520; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bkyz2—101 to 136 centimeters (39.8 to 53.5 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; 60 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine vesicular and few (1.0) fine vesicular pores; 5 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium faint irregular weakly coherent cemented gypsum crystals, unspecified with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N00521; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Akyzb—136 to 154 centimeters (53.5 to 60.6 inches);, black (2.5Y 2.5/1), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine dendritic tubular and few (1.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium faint irregular weakly coherent cemented gypsum crystals, unspecified with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N00522; wet when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bkyz3—154 to 200 centimeters (60.6 to 78.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; 60 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine dendritic tubular and few (1.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine faint cylindrical weakly coherent cemented gypsum crystals, unspecified with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 16N00523; wet when described; observed in pit, large or quarry