IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Phillips
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MT071010
  • User Pedon ID: 90MT071010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P1092
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63025
  • 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: 47.8675003
  • Std. Longitude: -107.8997192
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 30E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet S and 1500 feet E of NW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT071—Phillips
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chuck Gordon and Rick Bandy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Borollic Paleargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Phillips
  • PSC - 18 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Thoeny
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Borollic Natrargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    natric horizon

    0—18

    18—38

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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

    3

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    —

    806

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    45

    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 (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06740. few coarse roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    E—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak thin platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06741. few coarse roots throughout; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bt—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; clay; moderate medium and coarse columnar, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06742. common distinct sand grains on top of columns; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 233853; continuous - phpvsfiid 233853
    Bk1—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine irregular lime masses; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06743. common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots between peds; effervescence is continuous
    Bk2—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine and medium irregular lime masses; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06744. few fine lignite chips; common fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots between peds; effervescence is continuous
    Bky—81 to 130 centimeters (31.9 to 51.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular lime masses and 11 percent fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse broken boundary. Lab sample # 90P06745. few fine lignite chips; few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine nests of gypsum concentrations; few fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    C1—130 to 155 centimeters (51.2 to 61.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; gravelly clay loam; 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine faint mottles; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 90P06746. common fine lignite chips, few fine strata of sandy loam textures; few fine faint 10YR42 mottles; effervescence is continuous
    C2—155 to 203 centimeters (61.0 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 90P06747. & 90P6748; moderately thick strata of FSL & CL textures; effervescence is continuous