IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wheatbelt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MT041008
  • User Pedon ID: 91MT041008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991MT041008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P1133
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64169
  • 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: 48.9638901
  • Std. Longitude: -110.0472260
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet N and 2100 feet W of SE corner
  • Location Description: Map 6.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT041—Hill
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT041—Hill County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, isothermic Sodic Endoaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wheatbelt
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Simpson
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, montmorillonitic, frigid Udorthentic Ch
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/1991
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/26/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ATNU2

    Atriplex nuttallii

    Nuttall's saltbush

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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

    1

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    Ag—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), gray (5Y 5/1), dry; clay; strong very coarse granular structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P07620
    Bgss—5 to 41 centimeters (2.0 to 16.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), gray (5Y 5/1), dry; clay; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P07621
    Bgssy1—41 to 96 centimeters (16.1 to 37.8 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1), gray (5Y 5/1), dry; clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P07622
    Bgssy2—96 to 152 centimeters (37.8 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1), gray (5Y 5/1), dry; clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P07623