IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crago
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004MT059006
  • User Pedon ID: 04MT059006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004MT059006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0981
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17030
  • 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: 46.5944443
  • Std. Longitude: -110.9447250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 26
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT059—Meagher
  • MLRA: 43B—Central Rocky Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46110-E8—White Sulphur Springs, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, superactive, frigid Aridic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crago
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, superactive, frigid Aridic Calciustepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from limestone
  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments: limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/2004 ()
  • Plant Association Name: SiCO,15-19
  • 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

    ANTEN

    ARCA13

    ARFR4

    ARTR2

    GUSA2

    HECO26

    HEVI4

    KOMA

    PASM

    PHHO

    PSSP6

    Antennaria

    Artemisia cana

    Artemisia frigida

    Artemisia tridentata

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Hesperostipa comata

    Heterotheca villosa

    Koeleria macrantha

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Phlox hoodii

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    pussytoes

    silver sagebrush

    prairie sagewort

    big sagebrush

    broom snakeweed

    needle and thread

    hairy false goldenaster

    prairie Junegrass

    western wheatgrass

    spiny phlox

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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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

    10

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    1636.8

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    210

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; cobbly silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05383
    Bk1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 3 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05384
    Bk2—18 to 71 centimeters (7.1 to 28.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 4.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 20 percent carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 40 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05385
    Bk3—71 to 110 centimeters (28.0 to 43.3 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 4.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 20 percent carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, cresol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05386
    Bk4—110 to 180 centimeters (43.3 to 70.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine irregular pores; 20 percent carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, cresol red. Lab sample # 04N05387