IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Onita
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015SD009001
  • User Pedon ID: S2015SD009001A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0398
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82578
  • 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: 42.8293000
  • Std. Longitude: -98.0822000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 61W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Map Unit: HtA—Homme-Onita-Tetonka complex, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD009—Bon Homme
  • MLRA: 55C—Southern Black Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD009—Bon Homme County, South Dakota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42098-G1—Niobrara, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nathan Jones; A. Oxford
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Onita
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 24 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/28/2015
  • Classifier - A. Oxford
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: locally transported silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot Baseline Length - 30

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: N. Jones; J. Hemenway; S. Boltz; 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—53

    24—89

    53—89

    —53—

    —65—

    —36—
    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

    20

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    180

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; many (5.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01653; observed in push tube
    A1—5 to 9 centimeters (2.0 to 3.5 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; many (5.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01654; observed in push tube
    A2—9 to 24 centimeters (3.5 to 9.4 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01655; observed in push tube
    Bt—24 to 53 centimeters (9.4 to 20.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; moderately hard, firm; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01656; observed in push tube
    Btk—53 to 89 centimeters (20.9 to 35.0 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; moderately hard, firm; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; 10 percent coarse distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01657; observed in push tube
    2C—89 to 150 centimeters (35.0 to 59.1 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; clay loam; 33 percent clay; structureless massive; moderately hard, firm; 40 percent coarse distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01658; observed in push tube