IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zatoville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979MT087543
  • User Pedon ID: 79MT087543
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0726
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53513
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 46.7302780
  • Std. Longitude: -106.9661102
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 38E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet W and 400 feet N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Rosebud County, Montana.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT087—Rosebud

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Cambic Gypsiorthids
  • 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 #: 543
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zatoville
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zatoville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Borollic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • 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
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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03590. common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1Bw—8 to 31 centimeters (3.1 to 12.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03591. common very fine roots
    1Bk—31 to 53 centimeters (12.2 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03592. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common very fine roots
    1By—53 to 116 centimeters (20.9 to 45.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) iron stains; 11 percent fine gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03593. Soft masses of gypsum.; common fine masses of gypsum concentrations; few iron stains surface features; few very fine roots
    1C—116 to 133 centimeters (45.7 to 52.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dry; silty clay loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) iron stains; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03594. common iron stains surface features; few very fine roots
    1Cr—133 to 152 centimeters (52.4 to 59.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, gray (10YR 5/1) crushed, dry; silty clay loam; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog. Consolidated shale that crushes.; few gypsum crystals concentrations