IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Antwerp
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MT087322
  • User Pedon ID: 79MT087322
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0710
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024
  • 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: 46.4991684
  • Std. Longitude: -106.6861115
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 40E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet N and 30 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Rosebud County, Montana.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT087—Rosebud
  • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid 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 #: 322
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Antwerp
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Antwerp
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed (calcareous), frigid Ustic Torri
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 152 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1979
  • Classifier - Jerry Setera
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - thirteenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Dominant - perennial grass
  • Range Veg. Canopy Type Secondary - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1


  • SITE

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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1979 (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

    854

    25

    6

    E—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 19 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; many (3.0) very fine roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03513. common very fine and fine roots
    Bw—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout and many (3.0) fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03514. common very fine and fine roots
    Bz1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 39 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent fine salt masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03515. many fine salt masses concentrations; few very fine roots
    Bz2—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 14 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 38 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 11 percent medium salt masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 83P03516. common medium salt masses concentrations; few very fine roots
    BC—61 to 152 centimeters (24.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 66 percent silt; 20 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P03517