IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015SD099002
  • User Pedon ID: S2015SD099002D
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0426
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82606
  • 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: 43.6525000
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4806000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: NcC—Nora-Crofton complex, 6 to 9 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD099—Minnehaha
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD099—Minnehaha County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Haplustolls
  • 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 - Nora
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/9/2015
  • Classifier - N. Jones
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: low hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/3/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: N. Jones
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—20

    15—52

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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

    3

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    485

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01773
    Ap—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01774
    Bw—15 to 52 centimeters (5.9 to 20.5 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; moderately hard, firm; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01775