IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Niler
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977MT087436
  • User Pedon ID: 77MT087436
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0718
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53505
  • 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: 46.5263901
  • Std. Longitude: -106.8452759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 39E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet N and 1800 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Rosebud County, Montana.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT087—Rosebud

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • 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 #: 436
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Niler
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Niler
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed (calcareous), frigid, shallow Ustic T
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1977
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - 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: 7/1/1977 (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

    22

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    869

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    25

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak fine platy, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03553. common very fine roots
    1Cy—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine gypsum masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03554. 70% fine soft shale fragments.; common fine masses of gypsum concentrations; common very fine roots
    1Cr—33 to 152 centimeters (13.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. few very fine roots in cracks