IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LOSTRIVER
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MT041001
  • User Pedon ID: 91MT041001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991MT041001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P1126
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64162
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 48.8138885
  • Std. Longitude: -110.1566696
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet E and 800 feet N, SW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT041—Hill
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT041—Hill County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - LOSTRIVER
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harlem
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic (calcareous), frigid Ustic
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1991
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: oxbow
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 47
  • 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: wind erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PASM

    Pascopyrum smithii

    western wheatgrass

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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

    17

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    792

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; weak very fine granular structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P07584
    C1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine pores; fragments; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P07585
    C2—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; stratified clay to stratified clay loam; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine pores; fragments; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P07586
    C3—56 to 152 centimeters (22.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P07587