IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brockway
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT051025
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT051025
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988MT051025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0785
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60903
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 48.4501877
  • Std. Longitude: -110.9769897
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet W and 400 feet S of NE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT051—Liberty

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive Borollic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brockway
  • Classificaton Date - 1/11/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • 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:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    TRITI

    Triticum

    wheat

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    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04109
    Bk1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04110
    Bk2—20 to 66 centimeters (7.9 to 26.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04111
    Bk3—66 to 102 centimeters (26.0 to 40.2 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04112
    C—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red. weakly consolidated, loamy silt beds