IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Phillips
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT051019
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT051019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0779
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60897
  • Print Date: 9/23/2024

    • 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: 48.3935204
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0681000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet W and 100 feet N of SE 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 #: 19
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Phillips
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ellvam
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 55 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04089. many clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Btk—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04090. common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Bk—30 to 91 centimeters (11.8 to 35.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04091
    By—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; gradual wavy boundary.
    C—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay loam; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red.