IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Castner
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977MT077534
  • User Pedon ID: 77MT077534
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0441
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61545
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 46.5265617
  • Std. Longitude: -112.7470169
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 375 feet W and 100 feet S of NE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT077—Powell

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 534
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Castner
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Lithic Haploborolls
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1977
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1977 (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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    1478

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    90

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; channery loam; weak medium granular structure; soft, very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02467. many fine roots
    B2—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; weak medium granular structure; soft, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P02468. many fine roots
    Bk—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; extremely channery loam; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine continuous tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P02469. common fine roots
    R—41 centimeters (16.1 inches); fragments. hand fractured sandstone