IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Scobey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT051003
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT051003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0451
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60569
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 48.1336098
  • Std. Longitude: -110.8477783
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet N and 100 feet E of the SW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT051—Liberty

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.S. and R.D.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Aridic Argiborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Scobey
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Scoby
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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 brown (10YR 3/3) interior clay loam; fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02308
    1Bt—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior clay; strong medium prismatic, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 37 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02309. common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    1Btk—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, 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 smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02310. few clay films surface features on faces of peds
    1Bk—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02311
    1Bky—58 to 152 centimeters (22.8 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P02312