IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ferd
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987MT101001
  • User Pedon ID: 87MT101001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0349
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60467
  • 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: 48.4741669
  • Std. Longitude: -111.8958359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet W and 700 feet N of SE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT101—Toole

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Borollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ferd
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Acel
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Mollic Eutroboralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    13—58

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    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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    1049

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    1Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate coarse platy, and strong fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01766. few very fine roots
    1Bt1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P01767. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—23 to 58 centimeters (9.1 to 22.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 37 percent distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P01768. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine and fine roots
    1Btk3—58 to 97 centimeters (22.8 to 38.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores
    1Bk—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog.