IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pierre
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954SD055002
  • User Pedon ID: S1954SD055002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2435
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37131
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 44.4524994
  • Std. Longitude: -101.2619476
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 24E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 0.35 mile S of NW corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD055—Haakon
  • MLRA: 63A—Northern Rolling Pierre Shale Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD055—Haakon County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Torrerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pierre
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pierre
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: knoll
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    A11—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; strong very fine granular structure; hard; fragments. Lab sample # 40A19059
    A12—4 to 10 centimeters (1.6 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A19060
    B2—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse angular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A19061
    B3—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; 21 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; 1 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/3) throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19062. There is considerable more shale fragments than in the B2 horizon.
    CDca—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and olive gray (5Y 5/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay; 21 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse platy structure; extremely hard, firm; 1 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; very slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19063
    D—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay; strong coarse platy structure; extremely hard; very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, coats; 1 percent carbonate concretions and 1 percent salt masses; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A19064. Texture is clay shale.