IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elloam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MT071003
  • User Pedon ID: 90MT071003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0700
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62633
  • 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: 47.8277779
  • Std. Longitude: -107.9041672
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 30E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 SW 1/4
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT071—Phillips

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Gordon and R. Bandy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Borollic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elloam
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elloam
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Borollic Natrargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1990 (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
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    E—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; moderate thin platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay; strong medium and coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P04116
    Bky1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04117
    Bky2—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    C—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog.