IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PROMISE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954SD117001
  • User Pedon ID: S1954SD117001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1954SD117001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2442
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37138
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 44.3747215
  • Std. Longitude: -100.8669434
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 0.2 mile W, 200 feet N of SE corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD117—Stanley
  • MLRA: 63A—Northern Rolling Pierre Shale Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD117—Stanley County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Udic Chromusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - PROMISE
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Promise
  • Classificaton Date - 10/5/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/5/1954 (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

    NAVI4

    PASM

    Nassella viridula

    Pascopyrum smithii

    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

    2

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    A11—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; clay; strong very fine granular structure; hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A19116
    A12—4 to 13 centimeters (1.6 to 5.1 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), black (2.5Y 2/1), moist; clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A19117
    B21—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak medium prismatic parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A19118. Streaks of black (2.5Y 5/1, moist) occur in this horizon.
    B22—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak medium prismatic parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A19119
    B23—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 1 percent spherical noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19120
    Csa1—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 21 percent salt masses; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A19121
    Csa2—102 to 117 centimeters (40.2 to 46.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; massive; very hard, firm; 3 percent salt masses; fragments; slight effervescence; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A19122
    C—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay, clay; massive; hard, firm; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19123. Thin bands of dark grayish-brown (2.5Y 4/2, moist) silty clay loam.