IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kelstrup
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MT031002
  • User Pedon ID: 90MT031002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0197
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63244
  • 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: 45.9576836
  • Std. Longitude: -111.2450104
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1550 feet S and 250 feet W of NE corner
  • Location Description: Off Skinner Road near Horseshoe Hills, K-Gee/Schmidt land, Gallatin County.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT031—Gallatin

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kelstrup
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed Aridic Haploborolls
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1990 (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

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    1612

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01229. 14-16% clay; few medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bt—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01230. 28-30% clay; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bw—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P01231. 26-28% clay; few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bk1—30 to 84 centimeters (11.8 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P01232. 16-18% clay; common very fine and fine roots
    Bk2—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 91P01233. 12-14% clay; few very fine and fine roots