IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rock Creek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991MT089019
  • User Pedon ID: 91MT089019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0864
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63902
  • 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: 47.9805565
  • Std. Longitude: -115.7399979
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 32W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 2100 feet N and 300 feet W of the SE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT089—Sanders

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 19
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rock Creek
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1991 (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
    • 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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    716

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    270

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    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. forest litter
    Bs1—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P05217. common very fine and fine roots
    Bs2—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P05218. common very fine and fine roots
    2C1—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P05219. common very fine and fine roots
    2C2—79 to 114 centimeters (31.1 to 44.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; extremely gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P05220. common very fine and fine roots
    2C3—114 to 157 centimeters (44.9 to 61.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; extremely gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P05221. common very fine and fine roots