IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Selow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988MT089002
  • User Pedon ID: 88MT089002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0702
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60820
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 47.5869446
  • Std. Longitude: -114.4961090
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet S and 300 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Sanders County, MT.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT089—Sanders

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey over fine-silty, illitic, frigid Typic Natrixeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Selow
  • PSC - 89 to 152 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Selow
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey over loamy, illitic, frigid Xerollic Natrar
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    7

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    30

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    7

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    1Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 medium roots and 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03743. many fine roots; common medium roots
    1Bt—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; silty clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 5.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03744. many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many fine roots; few medium roots
    1Bk—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, dry; silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.5 fine roots; lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03745. common fine roots
    2Bk—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03746. few fine roots
    2C—71 to 152 centimeters (28.0 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P03747. few fine roots