IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ferd
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT051002
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT051002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0450
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60568
  • 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: 48.1436119
  • Std. Longitude: -110.8327789
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet S and 250 feet W of the E 1/4 corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT051—Liberty

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.S. and R.D.
  • 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 #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ferd
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ferd
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1988 (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
    • 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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    1Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; loam; moderate fine platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02303
    1E/Bt—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; loam; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02304
    1Bt—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02305. few clay films surface features on faces of peds
    1Btk—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02306. few clay films surface features on faces of peds
    1Bk—56 to 127 centimeters (22.0 to 50.0 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02307
    2C—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; coarse sandy loam; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog.