IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elloam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT051004
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT051004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0452
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60570
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 48.1530571
  • Std. Longitude: -110.8269424
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet N and 100 feet W of the SE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT051—Liberty
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: CRS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Borollic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elloam
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elloam
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1988 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    —

    —

    946

    —

    315

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    1E—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; loam; moderate very fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02313
    1Bt—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; clay; moderate fine and medium prismatic, and moderate coarse prismatic, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02314. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores
    1Btk—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; clay loam; strong medium prismatic, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds and 37 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02315. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    1Bk—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02316
    1Bkyz—38 to 81 centimeters (15.0 to 31.9 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.
    1C—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; clay; massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.