IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015SD099001
  • User Pedon ID: S2015SD099001D
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0421
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82601
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 43.6529300
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4811000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: NcC—Nora-Crofton complex, 6 to 9 percent slopes
  • State: South Dakota
  • County: SD099—Minnehaha
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: SD099—Minnehaha County, South Dakota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Haplustolls
  • 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 - Nora
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/9/2015
  • Classifier - N. Jones
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: low hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot Baseline Length - 40

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/2/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: N. Jones
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—18

    18—41

    41—61

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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

    4

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    522

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    359

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01754
    Ap—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01755
    Bt—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01756
    Btk—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light gray (5Y 7/1), moist, masses of reduced iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix 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; 1 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N01757