IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Anaconda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977MT077430
  • User Pedon ID: 77MT077430
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0438
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61542
  • 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: 46.3404503
  • Std. Longitude: -112.7678452
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet N and 600 feet W of SE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT077—Powell

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Aridic Haploborolls
  • 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 #: 430
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Anaconda
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Anaconda
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Aridic Haploboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1977
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

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    1402

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; granular, and platy structure; loose, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine to coarse roots; 5.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02452. common fine to coarse roots
    Bw—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine to coarse roots; 5.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02453. common fine to coarse roots
    Bk1—36 to 69 centimeters (14.2 to 27.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; loam; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P02454. few fine roots
    Bk2—69 to 152 centimeters (27.2 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; sandy loam; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P02455. few fine roots