IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Inavale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015SD123002
  • User Pedon ID: S2015SD123002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0479
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82619
  • User Project ID: 2016-5-PIE-66-001
  • Project Name: MLRA 66 - FY2016 Benchmark Soil Sampling
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 43.0102680
  • Std. Longitude: -99.6971830
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 75W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: The sample location was at or near the Inavale TUD location in Tripp County, South Dakota. It is located 17 miles south of Colome, South Dakota. It is located 1,520 feet west and 195 feet north of the southeast corner in Section 27, Township 95 N, Range 75W in a native grassland pasture along the Keya Paha River.
  • Map Unit: Ia—Inavale loamy fine sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD123—Tripp
  • MLRA: 66—Dakota-Nebraska Eroded Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD123—Tripp County, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43099-A6—Dallas SW, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Oxford; N. Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Ustifluvents
  • 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 - Inavale
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Typic Ustifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/4/2015
  • 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: sandy alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R065XY029NE Sandy Lowland

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/23/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: A. Oxford; N. Jones
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—28

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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

    1.5

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    616

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    180

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    A1—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy fine sand; 6 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (5.0) very fine roots throughout and common (3.0) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout and few (1.0) coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N01938; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—9 to 28 centimeters (3.5 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy fine sand; 6 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) medium roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N01939; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AC1—28 to 54 centimeters (11.0 to 21.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; loamy fine sand; 6 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N01940; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AC2—54 to 74 centimeters (21.3 to 29.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; stratified stratified loamy fine sand; 5 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N01941; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—74 to 115 centimeters (29.1 to 45.3 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; stratified stratified fine sand; 3 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N01942; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—115 to 203 centimeters (45.3 to 79.9 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; stratified stratified fine sand; 3 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 16N01943; moist when described; observed in pit, small