IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ferd
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT051020
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT051020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0780
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60898
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 48.3926888
  • Std. Longitude: -111.1167145
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet E and 100 feet S of NE 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 #: 20
  • 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:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • 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 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary.
    E—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 55 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04092. many clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Btk—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately 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 # 88P04093. common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Bk—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately 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 # 88P04094. common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    C—76 to 117 centimeters (29.9 to 46.1 inches); olive (5Y 4/3), olive (5Y 5/3), dry; clay loam; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red.