IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Neldore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976MT087196
  • User Pedon ID: 76MT087196
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0717
  • User Project ID: 22721
  • Project Name: Rosebud County Area and Part of Big Horn County, Montana - Published
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 46.3330574
  • Std. Longitude: -106.7819443
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 39E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet S and 1100 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Rosebud County, Montana.
  • Map Unit: 191—Volborg silty clay, 8 to 35 percent slopes?67—Neldore-Volborg silty clays, 4 to 25 percent slopes?795—Weingart-Neldore complex, 4 to 25 perecent slopes
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT087—Rosebud
  • MLRA: 58A—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MIL—Miles City, Montana
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT649—Rosebud County Area and Part of Big Horn County, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46106-C7—Nichols, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JMS, LAD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, nonacid, frigid, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 196
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Neldore
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Neldore
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, smectitic, nonacid, frigid, shallow Aridic Ustorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 3 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1976
  • Classifier - JMS, LAD
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R058AC059MT Shallow Clay (SwC) RRU 58A-C 11-14" p.z. May 25 2018 Raven Chavez

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: JMS, LAD
  • 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
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    30 - 152

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—30

    30—152

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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

    28

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    854

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    30

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay; moderate very fine and fine granular, and moderate very coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03549. common very fine roots
    A2—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03550. common very fine roots
    C1—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay; massive; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03551. common very fine roots
    C2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay; massive; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03552. 50% soft shale fragments.; common very fine roots
    Cr—30 to 152 centimeters (11.8 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dry; bedrock; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Not sampled. Texture is consolidated shale.