IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chereete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007MT081002
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MT081002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0785
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19578
  • 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: 46.5719452
  • Std. Longitude: -114.1091690
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT081—Ravalli
  • MLRA: 44—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT645—Bitterroot Valley Area, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JMS/EMR
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Haplustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chereete
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2015
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chereete
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Haplustepts
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and gravelly outwash derived from granite
  • Landform: outwash fan
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—9

    9—38

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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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    3400

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N04786
    E1—9 to 19 centimeters (3.5 to 7.5 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 9 percent clay; moderate thin platy structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N04787
    E2—19 to 38 centimeters (7.5 to 15.0 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 72 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine interstitial and 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N04788
    Bt—38 to 91 centimeters (15.0 to 35.8 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 83 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 25 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N04789
    C—91 to 150 centimeters (35.8 to 59.1 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly coarse sand; 90 percent sand; 6 percent silt; 4 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat angular 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 07N04790