IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mussigbrod
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003MT610003
  • User Pedon ID: 03MT001006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2003MT610003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N1013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16119
  • Print Date: 11/28/2024

    • 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: 45.6549988
  • Std. Longitude: -113.5602798
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT001—Beaverhead
  • MLRA: 44B—Central Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT610—Big Hole Area - Part of Beaverhead County, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45113-F5—Gibbons School, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ken Scalzone and Eve Wills
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Pachic Haplocryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mussigbrod
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Pachic Haplocryolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/16/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium and/or outwash
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: outwash terrace
  • Microfeature: mima mound
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: quartzite
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACMI

    ANNE

    ARTRV

    CAFI

    ELCI2

    ERIOG

    FEID

    GUSA

    KOMA

    LUPIN

    POSE

    VICIA

    Acacia millefolia

    Antennaria neglecta

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Carex filifolia

    Elymus cinereus

    Eriogonum

    Festuca idahoensis

    Guaiacum sanctum

    Koeleria macrantha

    Lupinus

    Poa secunda

    Vicia

    milfoil wattle

    field pussytoes

    mountain big sagebrush

    threadleaf sedge

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    buckwheat

    Idaho fescue

    holywood

    prairie Junegrass

    lupine

    Sandberg bluegrass

    vetch

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—43

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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

    2

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    1890

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium platy, and weak fine platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N05146; observed in trench
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N05147; observed in trench
    A3—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N05148; observed in trench
    Bk—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; carbonate masses around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N05149; observed in trench
    Ab—69 to 96 centimeters (27.2 to 37.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium granular, and weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; carbonate masses throughout; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N05150; observed in trench
    Bwb—96 to 124 centimeters (37.8 to 48.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; loam; 26 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N05151; observed in trench
    2C—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; extremely gravelly sand; 5 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 65 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.1. Lab sample # 03N05152; observed in trench