IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Miranda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1951SD115005
  • User Pedon ID: S1951SD115005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1951SD115005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2359
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37056
  • 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: 45.1055565
  • Std. Longitude: -98.6938858
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 119N
  • Range: 65W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 0.1 mile S and 0.15 mile E of W 1/4 corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD115—Spink
  • MLRA: 53B—Central Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD115—Spink County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.A. Mogen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Leptic Natriborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Miranda
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cavour
  • Classificaton Date - 8/23/1951
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/23/1951 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PASM

    Pascopyrum smithii

    western wheatgrass

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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
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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A18480
    A2—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A18480. Horizons A1 and A2 were sampled at 0-2 inches.
    B2—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and black (2.5Y 2/1) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) exterior, dry; clay; strong coarse columnar structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; noneffervescent; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A18481
    B2s—23 to 64 centimeters (9.1 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) crushed and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) exterior, dry; clay; 21 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) medium distinct and 21 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 21 percent salt masses; fragments; noneffervescent; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A18482
    Cca1—64 to 102 centimeters (25.2 to 40.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) broken face and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) broken face and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) exterior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; clay loam; 21 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 3 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A18483
    Cca2—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), pale olive (5Y 6/3) and white (5Y 8/1), dry; loam; 21 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine prominent and 21 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) fine prominent and 21 percent black (2.5Y 2/1) fine prominent mottles; massive; hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A18484
    152 to 305 centimeters (59.8 to 120.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A18485. Not sampled. Glacial till sampled at one-foot intervals for analyses of salt and pH.