IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sagedale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975MT087229
  • User Pedon ID: 75MT087229
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0721
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53508
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 45.3955574
  • Std. Longitude: -106.9069443
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 39E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 1850 feet E and 700 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Big Horn County, Montana.
  • Map Unit: 158—Sagedale-Cabba-Wayden complex, 8 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT003—Big Horn
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT649—Rosebud County Area and Part of Big Horn County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, frigid Typic Ustochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 229
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sagedale
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sagedale
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, frigid Typic Ustochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1975
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • 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

    25

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    1371

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    43

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    6

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03566. many very fine roots
    1Bw—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03567. many very fine roots
    1Bk1—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03568. common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; many very fine roots
    1Bk2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and very dark gray (N 3/0) interior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior and dark gray (N 4/0) interior, dry; silty clay loam; massive; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent pressure faces; 11 percent fine lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03569. common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few pressure faces surface features; common very fine roots
    1Bky—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and very dark gray (N 3/0) interior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior and dark gray (N 4/0) interior, dry; silty clay loam; massive; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent pressure faces; 11 percent fine and medium lime masses and 11 percent fine and medium gypsum masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03570. common fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine and medium masses of gypsum concentrations; few pressure faces surface features; few very fine roots
    1BC—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dry; silty clay loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P03571. common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles