IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ferd
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT051017
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT051017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0777
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60895
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 48.4218559
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0136566
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet E and 200 feet S of the NW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT051—Liberty

    • PEDON

  • 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 #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ferd
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gerdrum
  • 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

  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • 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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    90

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium platy structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04083
    Bt—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; clay loam; strong medium prismatic structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 55 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04084. many clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Bk1—20 to 76 centimeters (7.9 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04085
    Bk2—76 to 119 centimeters (29.9 to 46.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    C—119 to 127 centimeters (46.9 to 50.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silty clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. weakly consolidated silt beds