IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Phillips
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT051021
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT051021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0781
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60899
  • 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: 48.3176880
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0119858
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet E and 1200 feet S of NW 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 #: 21
  • 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

  • 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; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04095
    Bt—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04096. common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Btk—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04097. common clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Bk—38 to 86 centimeters (15.0 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04098
    C—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence.