IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duroc
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958SD095009
  • User Pedon ID: S1958SD095009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2497
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37193
  • 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: 43.4283333
  • Std. Longitude: -101.2177811
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 33W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 190 feet W and 1510 feet S of the NE corner
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD095—Mellette
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD095—Mellette County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Duroc
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - UNNAMED
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1958 (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
    • 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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    A1p—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and gray (10YR 5/1) crushed, black (10YR 2/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; organic stains on rock fragments; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A19601. Some quartz finely divided bleached; minerals primarily quartz; temperature 79 degrees F; false, plow depth boundary.
    AB—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine and 3.0 tubular pores; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry, coats on faces of peds and clay films on all faces of peds and black (10YR 2/1), moist, in root channels and/or pores and dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry, in root channels and/or pores and iron stains on rock fragments and organic stains on rock fragments; 3 percent black (10YR 2/1) worm casts and 3 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19602. Some quartz finely divided bleached in the dark cast material; minerals primarily quartz; temperature 76 degrees; worm mixed boundary.; continuous - phpvsfiid 185281; continuous - phpvsfiid 185282; patchy - phpvsfiid 185283; continuous - phpvsfiid 185281; continuous - phpvsfiid 185282; patchy - phpvsfiid 185283
    B21—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine pores; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and gray (10YR 5/1), dry, coats on faces of peds and black (10YR 2/1), moist, in root channels and/or pores and clay films on all faces of peds and organic stains on rock fragments and iron stains on rock fragments; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) worm casts and 21 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) worm casts and 21 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19603. Some quartz finely divided bleached in dark cast materials; minerals primarily quartz; temperature 76 degrees F.; patchy - phpvsfiid 185288; patchy - phpvsfiid 185289; patchy - phpvsfiid 185291; patchy - phpvsfiid 185288; patchy - phpvsfiid 185289; patchy - phpvsfiid 185291
    B22—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silt loam, silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine pores; dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, coats on faces of peds and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, coats on faces of peds and clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) worm casts and 21 percent brown (10YR 4/3) worm casts and 21 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19604. Quartz predominantly finely divided bleached; minerals predominantly quartz with a few feldspar and iron-manganese concentrations; temperature 80 degrees; worm mixed boundary.; patchy - phpvsfiid 185294; patchy - phpvsfiid 185295; continuous - phpvsfiid 185296; patchy - phpvsfiid 185294; patchy - phpvsfiid 185295; continuous - phpvsfiid 185296
    B23—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 3.0 fine pores; clay films on all faces of peds and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, in root channels and/or pores and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, in root channels and/or pores; 21 percent brown (10YR 4/3) worm casts and 21 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19605. Quartz predominantly finely divided bleached; minerals as in above horizon; temperature 80 degrees F.; patchy - phpvsfiid 185297; patchy - phpvsfiid 185297
    B3ca1—74 to 86 centimeters (29.1 to 33.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine pores; clay films on all faces of peds and brown (10YR 5/3), moist, in root channels and/or pores and very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) worm casts and 1 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) worm casts and 3 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19606. Quartz and minerals as in above horizon; temperature 74 degrees F.; patchy - phpvsfiid 185300; patchy - phpvsfiid 185300
    B3ca2—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) worm casts and 1 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) worm casts and 3 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A19607. Quartz and minerals as in horizon above; temperature 74 degrees F.
    Cca1—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; massive; soft, friable; 1 percent fine carbonate threads; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A19608. Quartz and minerals as in above horizon.