IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nippt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MT049006
  • User Pedon ID: 91MT049006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0505
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64744
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 46.7687874
  • Std. Longitude: -112.1842194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet E and 2300 feet N of SW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT049—Lewis and Clark

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LCB, M. Berg
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nippt
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed Borollic Haplargids
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/1976
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/27/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 7P-147
  • 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
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    E—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; channery loam, gravelly loam; moderate very fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine vesicular pores; 10 percent clay films; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02937. common roots from 4-24", fine roots below 24"; bleached silt on plates
    Bt—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; gravelly clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 75 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02938
    Bk1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02939. lime coats on underside of frags
    2Bk2—38 to 127 centimeters (15.0 to 50.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly sand; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21 percent lime masses between peds; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 92P02940. thin lime coats on frags; frag mostly beltrock (red, gray, and green); angular and flat frags in entire profile - doesn't have as strong a Ca horizon as other soils in the area; variegated colors