IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Phillips
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT051011
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT051011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0771
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60889
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 48.4515762
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0050430
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 2600 feet E and 100 feet N of the SW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT051—Liberty

    • PEDON

  • 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 #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Phillips
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elloam
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Borollic Natrargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1988 (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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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04058
    Bt—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; strong medium prismatic structure; very hard, friable, slightly plastic; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04059. common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Btk—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; very hard, friable, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04060
    Bk1—33 to 76 centimeters (13.0 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; clay loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04061
    Bk2—76 to 132 centimeters (29.9 to 52.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    C—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; hard, friable, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. thin stratified layers of clay loam and silty loam