IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Promise
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982SD017001
  • User Pedon ID: 82SD017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0195
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52437
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024
  • 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: 44.0416679
  • Std. Longitude: -99.3230591
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 107N
  • Range: 71W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 811 meters N and 290 meters E of the SW corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD017—Buffalo
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Karl Krueger and Regis Vialle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, mesic Udic Chromusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Promise
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Promise
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Vertic Haplusto
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • 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

    270

    1Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P00888
    1A—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P00889. common fine roots
    1Bw1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 37 percent gibbsite coats on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P00890. Few fine and medium very dark dark gray 10YR 3/1 moist. Tongues of A horzion.; common gibbsite coats surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots
    1Bw2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 37 percent gibbsite coats on faces of peds; 1 percent medium carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P00891. Few fine and medium very dark gray 10YR 3/1 moist. Tongues of A horzion.; few medium lime concretions concentrations; common gibbsite coats surface features on faces of peds; common fine roots
    1BCk—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 11 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P00892. common fine and medium lime concretions concentrations; common fine roots
    1Cy—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay; massive; hard, firm, very plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions and 11 percent fine and medium salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 83P00893. few fine and medium lime concretions concentrations; common fine and medium salt masses concentrations; common fine roots