IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bullock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980MT087496
  • User Pedon ID: 80MT087496
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0714
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53501
  • 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: 46.6480560
  • Std. Longitude: -106.4925003
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 42E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 2,000 feet N and 1,150 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Rosebud County, Montana.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT087—Rosebud

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Borollic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 496
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bullock
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hopsonville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Borollic Natrargid
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1980 (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

    5

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    869

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    28

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    7

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    1A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03535. many very fine roots
    1A2—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Not sampled.; many very fine roots
    1Bt—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; strong medium columnar structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03536. Tops of columns coated with bleached silt and sand.; many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many very fine roots
    1Bk—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; strong medium prismatic structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03537. Common fine and medium seams.; common fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations; many very fine roots
    1Byz1—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine salt masses and 1 percent fine gypsum masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03538. few fine salt masses concentrations; few fine masses of gypsum concentrations; common very fine roots
    1Byz2—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine gypsum masses and 1 percent fine salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03539. Combined thickness of the Byz horizon is 5 to 16 inches.; few fine masses of gypsum concentrations; few fine salt masses concentrations; few very fine roots
    1Cr—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior and olive (5Y 5/3) interior, gray (10YR 6/1) interior and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) interior, dry; shaly silty clay, silty clay loam; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog. Not sampled.