IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nahon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974SD013003
  • User Pedon ID: S1974SD013003
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2523
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37219
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 45.3691673
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4547195
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 122N.
  • Range: 63W.
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 260 feet west and 1,160 feet south of Northeast corner
  • Location Description: About 6 miles south of Aberdeen, SD.
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD013—Brown
  • MLRA: 55B—Central Black Glaciated Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-DVL—Devils Lake, North Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD013—Brown County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Loren D. Schultz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Calcic Natrudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Spreadsheet
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nahon (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 23 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/2017
  • Classifier - Alan R. Gulsvig
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nahon
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1984
  • Classifier - Loren D. Schultz
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: lake plain
  • Landform: flat
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/30/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: LA Duey
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    albic horizon

    natric horizon

    salt accumulations

    calcic horizon

    0—15

    15—23

    23—51

    51—94

    64—94

    —15—

    —8—

    —28—

    —43—

    —30—
    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

    1

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.
    E—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), gray (10YR 5/1) and gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silt loam; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Btn1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silty clay; weak fine and medium columnar parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; thin gray (10YR 6/1) silt coats on tops of soil columns and thin clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 1292694; continuous - phpvsfiid 1292693; continuous - phpvsfiid 1292694; continuous - phpvsfiid 1292693
    Btn2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; thin clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine salt crystals in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Few salt crystals in the lower part of this horizon - below 16 inches (40 cm).; continuous - phpvsfiid 1292695; continuous - phpvsfiid 1292695
    Bz—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 3 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix and 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.
    Bkz—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 3 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.
    C1—94 to 142 centimeters (37.0 to 55.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; stratified silty clay loam to very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. This horizon is varved with thin layers of very fine sandy loan and silty clay; the varves are 1 to 3 millimeters thick.
    C2—142 to 152 centimeters (55.9 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; stratified silty clay to sandy loam; massive; hard, firm; moderately slow permeability; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. This horizon is varved with thin layers of very fine sandy loan and silty clay; the varves are 5 to 10 millimeters thick.