IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Firo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT077940
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT077940
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0347
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61451
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 46.6313896
  • Std. Longitude: -112.4452744
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet S and 1600 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Powell County, Montana.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT077—Powell

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Lithic Haploborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 940
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Firo
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Firo
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Lithic Haploboroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    45

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    1707

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    225

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P01916. common medium roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Bw—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very cobbly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 5.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P01917. many very fine and fine roots; many medium roots