IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ferd
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT051018
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT051018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0778
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60896
  • 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: 48.4082451
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0480957
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2600 feet E and 200 feet N of SW corner
  • Location Description: Markrid
  • 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 #: 18
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ferd
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Creed
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Borollic Natrargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • 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); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; loose, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04086. common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Btk—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04087. common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Bk—43 to 84 centimeters (16.9 to 33.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04088
    Bky—84 to 91 centimeters (33.1 to 35.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary.
    C—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; platy structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, cresol red.