IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Phillips
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT051005
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT051005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0453
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60571
  • 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: 48.1650009
  • Std. Longitude: -110.9338913
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet N and 10 feet W in rangeland in the SE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT051—Liberty
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Powell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Borollic Paleargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Phillips
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Phillips
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1988 (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
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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; loam; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02317
    1E—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak angular blocky structure; hard, very friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02318
    1Bt—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; clay; strong fine and medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02319. common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    1Btk—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02320. few clay films surface features on faces of peds
    1Bk1—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P02321
    1Bk2—76 to 127 centimeters (29.9 to 50.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; massive; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 88P02322
    1Bky—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay loam; massive; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments.