IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Phillcher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05MT6451026
  • User Pedon ID: 05MT6451026
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 05MT6451026
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0182
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18388
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 46.6450157
  • Std. Longitude: -113.9022675
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 32D44—Klutch-Hun families, complex, moderately steep mountain slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT645—Bitterroot Valley Area, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jay Skovlin & Beth Rowley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Andic Eutrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Phillcher
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Andic Eutrocryepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Belt Supergroup formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/29/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Plant Association Name: PSME/LIBO-CARU
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACMI2

    AMAL2

    ARUV

    CARU

    CHIMA

    FRVE

    FRVI

    LAOC

    LIBO3

    LUPIN

    MARE11

    PHMA5

    PICO

    PIPO

    ROWO

    SPBE2

    SYAL

    UNKNOWN

    Achillea millefolium

    Amelanchier alnifolia

    Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Chimaphila

    Fragaria vesca

    Fragaria virginiana

    Larix occidentalis

    Linnaea borealis

    Lupinus

    Mahonia repens

    Physocarpus malvaceus

    Pinus contorta

    Pinus ponderosa

    Rosa woodsii

    Spiraea betulifolia

    Symphoricarpos albus

    unknown scientific name

    common yarrow

    Saskatoon serviceberry

    kinnikinnick

    pinegrass

    prince's pine

    woodland strawberry

    Virginia strawberry

    western larch

    twinflower

    lupine

    creeping barberry

    mallow ninebark

    lodgepole pine

    ponderosa pine

    Woods' rose

    white spirea

    common snowberry

    unknown national vernacular name

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    0—8

    5—31

    8—31

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    8/29/2005

    50

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    13
    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

    28

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    1592

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    330

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); ; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    A—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; ; 14 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; loose, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00607; observed in cut
    Bw1—8 to 19 centimeters (3.1 to 7.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; ; 13 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; loose, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00608; observed in cut
    Bw2—19 to 31 centimeters (7.5 to 12.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; ; 11 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; loose, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00609; observed in cut
    C1—31 to 82 centimeters (12.2 to 32.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; ; 9 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 35 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N00610; observed in cut
    C2—82 to 119 centimeters (32.3 to 46.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; ; 9 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 70 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6. Lab sample # ; observed in cut