IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peerless
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 57MT083001
  • User Pedon ID: 57MT083001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 57MT083001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5322
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42569
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 47.6163244
  • Std. Longitude: -104.5518375
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 N.
  • Range: 56 E.
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet west of northeast corner
  • Location Description: In ungraded section line right-of-way with native grasses in pasture on north and cultivated field on south.
  • Map Unit: FaA—Farnuf loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT083—Richland
  • MLRA: 58A—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT083—Richland County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogen, Allen, Cawlfield, Clark, Smith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Peerless
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/2010
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Daniels
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/7/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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 -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARCA12

    BOGR2

    CAFI

    HECOC8

    KOMA

    PASM

    Artemisia campestris

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Carex filifolia

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Koeleria macrantha

    Pascopyrum smithii

    field sagewort

    blue grama

    threadleaf sedge

    needle and thread

    prairie Junegrass

    western 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
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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine platy parts to moderate fine crumb structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40040
    AB—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40041. continuous - phpvsfiid 258013; continuous - phpvsfiid 258013
    Bt1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; faint clay films on all faces of peds and distinct clay films on faces of peds and distinct clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40042. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 258015; continuous - phpvsfiid 258014; patchy - phpvsfiid 258016; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 258015; continuous - phpvsfiid 258014; patchy - phpvsfiid 258016
    Bt2—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40043. patchy - phpvsfiid 258017; patchy - phpvsfiid 258017
    Bk1—41 to 81 centimeters (16.1 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist; loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; carbonate threads throughout and carbonate masses throughout; 7 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40044
    2Bk2—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist; very gravelly loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; distinct carbonate coats on rock fragments; carbonate threads throughout and carbonate concretions throughout; 44 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40045. continuous - phpvsfiid 258018; continuous - phpvsfiid 258018
    3C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), moist; gravelly silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint carbonate coats on rock fragments; 24 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A40046. continuous - phpvsfiid 258019; continuous - phpvsfiid 258019