IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Whitore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT077956
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT077956
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988MT077956
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0345
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61449
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 46.7249985
  • Std. Longitude: -113.0016632
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet W and 1800 feet N of SE corner
  • Location Description: Powell County, Montana.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT077—Powell

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic Typic Cryochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 956
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Whitore
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Whitore
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic Typic Cryochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • 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: 8/1/1988 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CARU

    PSME

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    pinegrass

    Douglas-fir

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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

    35

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    1890

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    0

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    0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 89P01908
    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 5.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P01908. many very fine and fine roots; many medium and coarse roots
    Bw—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P01909. common very fine and fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    Bk1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; extremely gravelly loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P01910. few medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bk2—51 to 152 centimeters (20.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P01911. few very fine and fine roots