IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Volborg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978MT087428
  • User Pedon ID: 78MT087428
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0725
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53512
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 46.4263878
  • Std. Longitude: -106.7772217
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 40E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet N and 25 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Rosebud County, Montana.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT087—Rosebud

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, acid, 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 #: 428
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Volborg
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Volborg
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, acid, frigid, shallow Us
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1978 (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

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    824

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    30

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03588. Weak, thin crust at surface.; common very fine roots
    1C—8 to 38 centimeters (3.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay; moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03589. common very fine roots
    1Cr—38 to 152 centimeters (15.0 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, gray (10YR 6/1) interior, dry; unknown texture; 2.5 very fine roots in cracks; 37 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) iron stains on rock fragments; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog. Texture is consolidated shale; roots matted at top of shale and in cracks in upper 10 cm; common pale yellow (5YR 8/4) sulfur bands. Not sampled.; common iron stains surface features on rock fragments; common very fine roots in cracks