IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tolex
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MT049010
  • User Pedon ID: 91MT049010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991MT049010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0509
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64748
  • 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: 46.7562904
  • Std. Longitude: -111.9775467
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 2100 feet S and 200 feet E of NW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT049—Lewis and Clark

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tolex
  • PSC - 13 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tolex
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Lithic Eutroboralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: foothills
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    ACME

    AGSP

    CAGA3

    FEID

    Acacia melanoxylon

    Agropyron spicatum

    Carex garberi

    Festuca idahoensis

    blackwood

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    elk sedge

    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

    20

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    1356

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    90

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. partially decomposed pine needles and twigs
    A—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; channery loam; moderate very fine platy parts to moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02961
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; channery loam; moderate very fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02962. plate coated with bleached silt and sand grains
    Bt—15 to 35 centimeters (5.9 to 13.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very channery clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 75 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 60 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P02963. 80% of frags retained on #4 sieve
    BC—35 to 48 centimeters (13.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; extremely channery loam; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 90 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P02964. strongly effervescent on undersides of frags
    R—48 to 154 centimeters (18.9 to 60.6 inches); 0.5 fine roots in cracks; fragments; very slight effervescence. cracks in rock mostly more than 3" apart