IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cowcamp
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003MT610005
  • User Pedon ID: 03MT001008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2003MT610005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N1015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16121
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 45.5138893
  • Std. Longitude: -113.4663925
  • 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-E4—Wisdom, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Eve Wills and Ken Scalzone
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Oxyaquic Argicryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowcamp
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Oxyaquic Argicryolls
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/16/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed alluvium
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: HOJU/CAREX
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    CAREX

    DECA18

    HOJU

    JUBA

    Carex

    Deschampsia caespitosa

    Hordeum jubatum

    Juncus balticus

    sedge

    tufted hairgrass

    foxtail barley

    Baltic rush

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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

    1

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    1893

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    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N05159
    A1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); black (7.5YR 2/1), very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), dry; loam; 20 percent clay; strong medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent medium masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N05160
    A2—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), dry; fine sandy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N05161
    Bt1—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume rounded 76-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 50 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N05162
    Bt2—76 to 119 centimeters (29.9 to 46.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry; extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume rounded 76-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 50 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N05163
    C—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; extremely cobbly coarse sand; 2 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25 percent by volume rounded 76-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 50 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # 03N05164