IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lonesome
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MT041004
  • User Pedon ID: 91MT041004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P1129
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64165
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 48.8977776
  • Std. Longitude: -109.8608322
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet S and 1600 feet W of the NE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT041—Hill
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT041—Hill County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy over loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid Aridic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lonesome
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lonesome
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy over loamy, mixed (calcareous), frigid Ustic
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/1991
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/19/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

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    872

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    95

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P07598
    Bw—18 to 53 centimeters (7.1 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P07599. sample 91P7602 is a subsample of BW, loamy fine sand
    Bk1—53 to 104 centimeters (20.9 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P07600. sample 91P7603 is a subsample of Bk1, loam texture
    2Bk—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P07601