IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Davidell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977MT087285
  • User Pedon ID: 77MT087285
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0713
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53500
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.5224991
  • Std. Longitude: -106.7358322
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 40E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet W and 1500 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Rosebud County, Montana.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT087—Rosebud

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive Borollic Haplargids
  • 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 #: 285
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Davidell
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Davidell
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Borollic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1977
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1977 (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

    2

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    824

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    25

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    4

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    7

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    1E1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; loam; moderate fine platy structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03529. many very fine roots
    1E2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; loam; weak medium angular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03530. many very fine roots
    1Bt—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03531. many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many very fine roots
    1Bk—30 to 64 centimeters (11.8 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03532. Disseminated lime.; common fine roots
    1BC1—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03533. few very fine roots
    1BC2—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P03534. few very fine roots