IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brookings
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019SD029001
  • User Pedon ID: S2019SD029001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0658
  • User Project ID: FY23
  • Project Name: UMRB_RED
  • Print Date: 12/7/2025

    • 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: 45.1055000
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1024000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 119N
  • Range: 51W
  • Section: 7
  • Map Unit: J143A—Kranzburg-Brookings silty clay loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD029—Codington
  • MLRA: 102A—Rolling Till Prairie
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RED—Redfield, South Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD029—Codington County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Oxford; M. Osterman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Brookings
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2019
  • Classifier - A. Oxford
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess over clayey till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: M. Osterman;A. Oxford
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—58

    58—111

    58—200

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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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    564

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    Ap—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 10 percent sand; 21 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; many very fine dendritic tubular and common medium dendritic tubular and many fine dendritic tubular and few coarse dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 5-20-76 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N03743; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A—11 to 38 centimeters (4.3 to 15.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 10 percent sand; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; common very fine dendritic tubular and few medium dendritic tubular and common fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 5-20-76 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N03744; observed in pit, large or quarry
    AB—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); 80 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) and 20 percent very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) silt loam; 10 percent sand; 22 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; many very fine dendritic tubular and common fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N03745; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bk—58 to 111 centimeters (22.8 to 43.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay; 15 percent sand; 42 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; common very fine dendritic tubular and common fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, masses of reduced iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 7 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 5-20-76 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 8 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N03746; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2BC—111 to 144 centimeters (43.7 to 56.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) very gravelly clay; 20 percent sand; 42 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; few very fine roots throughout; common very fine dendritic tubular and few fine dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 25 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 5-20-76 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N03747; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2C—144 to 200 centimeters (56.7 to 78.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly clay; 25 percent sand; 42 percent clay; structureless massive; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; few very fine dendritic tubular and few fine dendritic tubular pores; 25 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 50 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of reduced iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 5-20-76 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 19N03748; observed in pit, large or quarry