IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gerdrum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT051026
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT051026
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988MT051026
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0786
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60904
  • 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: 48.4474106
  • Std. Longitude: -110.9453201
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet E and 1400 feet S of NW 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 #: 26
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gerdrum
  • 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

    2

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    E—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    Bt1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. few clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Bt2—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04113. few clay films surface features on faces of peds
    Bk1—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04114
    Bk2—46 to 102 centimeters (18.1 to 40.2 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04115
    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; massive; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog.