IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019SD099001
  • User Pedon ID: S2019SD099001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0673
  • User Project ID: FY23
  • Project Name: UMRB_RED
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 43.7316000
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6814000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 103N
  • Range: 49W
  • Section: 14
  • Map Unit: MnB—Moody-Nora complex, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD099—Minnehaha
  • MLRA: 102C—Loess Uplands
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-STA—Stanton, Nebraska
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD099—Minnehaha County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Oxford; M. Osterman
  • 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 - 6/13/2019
  • 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
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/2019 (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 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    gypsum accumulations

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—29

    29—127

    127—200

    127—200

    127—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

    4

    8

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    471

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    212

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 30 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many very fine roots throughout and common medium 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; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N03831; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt—15 to 29 centimeters (5.9 to 11.4 inches);, 50 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 35 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to strong medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; many very fine dendritic tubular and few medium dendritic tubular and many fine dendritic tubular and few coarse dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N03832; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk1—29 to 47 centimeters (11.4 to 18.5 inches);, 65 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 35 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; 8 percent sand; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; many very fine dendritic tubular and few medium dendritic tubular and many fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent medium faint irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N03833; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk2—47 to 127 centimeters (18.5 to 50.0 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silt loam; 8 percent sand; 26 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately 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; 10 percent medium distinct irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 19N03834; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BCy—127 to 200 centimeters (50.0 to 78.7 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 30 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots throughout; few very fine dendritic tubular and few fine dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent medium prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 30 percent coarse prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, masses of reduced iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 2 percent fine distinct threadlike strongly coherent cemented gypsum masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 19N03835; observed in pit, large or quarry