IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blaincreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MT049003
  • User Pedon ID: 91MT049003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991MT049003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0499
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64738
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 47.0582314
  • Std. Longitude: -112.1117249
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet S and 1700 feet W of the NE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT049—Lewis and Clark

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LCB
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blaincreek
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal Typic Argiborolls
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/1981
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/7/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGSP

    FEID

    FESC

    Agropyron spicatum

    Festuca idahoensis

    Festuca scabrella

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    Idaho fescue

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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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    1317

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    432

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    6.1

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    6.7

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; gravelly loam; weak very fine platy parts to weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 25 percent by volume angular unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02908
    Bt1—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/2) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; gravelly clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02909
    Bt2—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; very gravelly clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02910
    R—61 centimeters (24.0 inches); fragments. hard igneous bedrock with a few cracks; thin lime coating on undersides of frags