IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Turner
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 57MT021002
  • User Pedon ID: 57MT021002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5314
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42561
  • 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: 47.6016488
  • Std. Longitude: -104.6384760
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 N.
  • Range: 55 E.
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 275 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: On section line, 80 feet from the SWcorner of a field in an undisterbed grassed plot.
  • Map Unit: Tg—Tinsley-Lambert complex, 15 to 65 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT021—Dawson
  • MLRA: 58A—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT021—Dawson County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogan, Allen, Cawlfield, Clark, Smith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Turner
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/2010
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Edgar
  • Classificaton Date - 3/9/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly alluvium and/or loamy loess
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/9/2004 (entry creation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 115
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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

    1.5

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    838

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    270

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak fine platy parts to moderate fine crumb structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39977
    A2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate subangular blocky, and moderate medium crumb structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39978
    Bt—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39979
    Bk—33 to 84 centimeters (13.0 to 33.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 4 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39980
    2C1—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loamy sand; single grain; loose; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39981
    2C2—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); very gravelly coarse sand; 38 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A39982