IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954SD105004
  • User Pedon ID: S1954SD105004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1954SD105004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2426
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37122
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 45.5305557
  • Std. Longitude: -102.5952759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 0.2 mile W of N 1/4 corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD105—Perkins
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD105—Perkins County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morton
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/8/1954 (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

    BOGR2

    GRIND

    NAVI4

    PASM

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Grindelia

    Nassella viridula

    Pascopyrum smithii

    blue grama

    gumweed

    green needlegrass

    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    3

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    135

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    A1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine platy parts to weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A18988
    B1—6 to 13 centimeters (2.4 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A18989
    B21—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A18990. continuous - phpvsfiid 195574; continuous - phpvsfiid 195574
    B22—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A18991. continuous - phpvsfiid 195575; continuous - phpvsfiid 195575
    C1ca—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 1 percent carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A18992
    C2ca—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, very friable; 21 percent carbonate threads and 21 percent spherical noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A18993. Lime also in films and seams.
    C3—66 to 107 centimeters (26.0 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A18994