IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cabba
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013SD105002
  • User Pedon ID: S2013SD105002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2013SD105002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0308
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74467
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 45.5764117
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4701417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Pedon is located 103 miles west and 85.6 miles north of the Pierre MLRA Soil Survey Office in Pierre, SD.
  • Map Unit: CaE—Cabba-Lantry complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD105—Perkins
  • MLRA: 54—Rolling Soft Shale Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD105—Perkins County, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45102-E4—Bison, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Oxford, N. Jones, Eddy Kraft, John Kempenich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid, shallow Typic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cabba
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid, shallow Typic Ustorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/2013
  • Classifier - A. Oxford
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy residuum weathered from mudstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Ksat Class Upper: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent moderate weathered mudstone at 34cm with 10 to <45; indurated slight weathered limestone, unspecified at 25cm with 45 to <100; weakly coherent moderate weathered mudstone at 65cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: ; ;
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R054XY030ND Shallow Loamy Jul 19 2013 A. Oxford

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/18/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: A. Oxford
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    CAFI

    CALO

    MUCU3

    SCSC

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Carex filifolia

    Calamovilfa longifolia

    Muhlenbergia cuspidata

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    blue grama

    threadleaf sedge

    prairie sandreed

    plains muhly

    little bluestem

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    28 - 152

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    paralithic contact

    0—4

    14—28

    28—152

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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

    7

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    784

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    24

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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; silt loam; 25 percent sand; 21 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; 0 percent by volume , 0 percent by weight unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 14N01605; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BC—4 to 14 centimeters (1.6 to 5.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; silt loam; 25 percent sand; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and 2.0 fine pores; 0 percent by volume , 0 percent by weight unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01606; observed in pit, large or quarry
    C—14 to 28 centimeters (5.5 to 11.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; very parachannery silt loam; 25 percent sand; 22 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and 1.0 fine pores; and 1 percent fine faint irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 20 percent by volume flat angular weakly coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter mudstone fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume flat angular weakly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter mudstone fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N01607; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Cr1—28 to 62 centimeters (11.0 to 24.4 inches); bedrock; 30 percent medium prominent threadlike weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # 14N01608; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Cr2—62 to 87 centimeters (24.4 to 34.3 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 14N01609; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Cr3—87 to 152 centimeters (34.3 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; 1 percent medium prominent spherical strongly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries in matrix and 30 percent medium prominent threadlike weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in cracks and 65 percent coarse prominent threadlike weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # 14N01610; observed in pit, large or quarry