IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kerrdam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969MT047008
  • User Pedon ID: 69MT047008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0420
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59715
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 47.6162682
  • Std. Longitude: -114.5209808
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet W AND 30 feet N OF THE SE CORNER
  • Location Description: LAKE County, MT.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT047—Lake

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, frigid Calcixerollic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kerrdam
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kerrdam
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, frigid Xerollic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1969
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    18

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    824

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    30

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    8

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    1Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02199. many very fine and fine roots
    1Bw—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02201. many fine and medium roots
    1Bk—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02202. many very fine and fine roots
    1C1—41 to 86 centimeters (16.1 to 33.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02203. common very fine roots
    1C2—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog.