IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ridge-like
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004MT059003
  • User Pedon ID: 04MT059003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004MT059003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0978
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17027
  • Print Date: 12/18/2024

    • 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: 46.6602783
  • Std. Longitude: -110.7105560
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 3
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT059—Meagher
  • MLRA: 43B—Central Rocky Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46110-F6—Volcano Butte, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid, shallow Typic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ridge-like
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid, shallow Typic Haplustepts
  • PSC - 0 to 27 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from noncalcareous siltstone
  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: Dissected Sedimentary plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Bedrock: siltstone, noncalcareous at 27cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ACHIL

    ARFR4

    ARTR2

    FEID

    LUPIN

    PASM

    PHHO

    POFR4

    Achillea

    Artemisia frigida

    Artemisia tridentata

    Festuca idahoensis

    Lupinus

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Phlox hoodii

    Potentilla fruticosa

    yarrow

    prairie sagewort

    big sagebrush

    Idaho fescue

    lupine

    western wheatgrass

    spiny phlox

    bush cinquefoil

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

    bedrock, paralithic

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    27 -

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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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    1720

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; coarse sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 4.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 4.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume flat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05364
    Bw1—9 to 18 centimeters (3.5 to 7.1 inches); sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 7 percent by volume flat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05365
    Bw2—18 to 27 centimeters (7.1 to 10.6 inches); channery sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 4.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent by volume flat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05366
    Cr—27 to 150 centimeters (10.6 to 59.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 04N05367