IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ottumwa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985SD103001
  • User Pedon ID: 85SD103001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0658
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56924
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024
  • 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: 44.1466675
  • Std. Longitude: -102.0305557
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 17E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 850 feet west and2,100 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD103—Pennington
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Neilsen, Richard Schlepp and Kendall Olson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ottumwa
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ottumwa
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Vertic Haplustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1985 (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

    3

    0

    1Ap1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior, dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03417. few fine and medium roots
    1Ap2—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior, dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03418. few fine and medium roots
    1Bw1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior, dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03419. few fine and medium roots
    1Bw2—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior, olive (5Y 4/3) interior and dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium blocky, and moderate fine blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent distinct nonintersecting slickensides; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03420. few nonintersecting slickensides surface features; few fine roots
    1Bk—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior, olive (5Y 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay; strong medium and coarse blocky, and moderate fine and medium blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent prominent nonintersecting slickensides; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03421. few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; few nonintersecting slickensides surface features
    1Bky—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) interior, olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior, moist; silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) iron stains; 11 percent fine carbonate concretions; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03422. Few fine accumulations of calcium sulfate.; common fine carbonate concretions concentrations; few iron stains surface features; few fine roots
    1C—107 to 130 centimeters (42.1 to 51.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior, dark gray (5Y 4/1) interior, moist; clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) iron stains; 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03423. few iron stains surface features; few fine roots
    1Cr—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) interior, dark gray (5Y 4/1) interior, moist; weathered bedrock; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) iron stains; fragments. Lab sample # 85P03424