IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Volborg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MT071013
  • User Pedon ID: 90MT071013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P1095
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63028
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 48.7397232
  • Std. Longitude: -108.2138901
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet S and 1800 feet W of NE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT071—Phillips
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chuck Gordon and Rick Bandy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, frigid, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Volborg
  • PSC - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Volborg
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, acid, frigid, shallow Us
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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

    paralithic contact

    0—10

    30—203

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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

    5

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    —

    847

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    315

    30

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    6

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; loose, loose, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 medium and coarse roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P06761. common fine roots throughout; common medium and coarse roots throughout
    C—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; clay; massive; soft, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments and 70 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P06762. few medium and coarse roots throughout; common fine roots throughout
    Cr—30 to 203 centimeters (11.8 to 79.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2); 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron stains on bottoms of plates; 11 percent fine irregular gypsum crystal clusters; fragments. Lab sample # 90P06763. & 90P6764; common coarse seams of sulfer 2.5Y 7/6; common fine nests of gypsum concentrations; few iron stains surface features on bottoms of plates; few fine roots in cracks; patchy - phpvsfiid 233856; patchy - phpvsfiid 233856