IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Volborg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MT071006
  • User Pedon ID: 90MT071006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P1088
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63021
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 47.8316650
  • Std. Longitude: -108.2230530
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet S and 900 feet E of NW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT071—Phillips
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Clair Clark and Rick Bandy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, acid, frigid, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Volborg
  • PSC - 25 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Neldore
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, nonacid, frigid, shallow
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—5

    43—152

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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

    4

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    875

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    225

    30

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    6

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06709. few glacial cobbles and pebbles on surface; few coarse roots throughout; common fine and medium roots throughout
    C1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; very hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06710. few coarse roots throughout; common fine and medium roots throughout
    C2—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; clay; massive; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent distinct light brown (7.5YR 6/4) coats on faces of peds; 70 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06711. common thin bands and seams of sulfur 10YR 8/6; few coats surface features on faces of peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226063; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226063
    Cr1—43 to 81 centimeters (16.9 to 31.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) coats on bottoms of plates; fragments. Lab sample # 90P06712. few coats surface features on bottoms of plates; few fine roots in cracks; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226064; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 226064
    Cr2—81 to 117 centimeters (31.9 to 46.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # 90P06713. few fine roots in cracks
    Cr3—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; fragments. Lab sample # 90P06714