IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loonlake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992MT053003
  • User Pedon ID: 92MT053003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992MT053003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0649
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64888
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 48.0805550
  • Std. Longitude: -115.1847229
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 28W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet W and 1800 feet N of SE corner
  • Location Description: Along Loon Lake.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT053—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT651—Sanders and Parts of Lincoln and Flathead Counties, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48115-A2—Loon Lake, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: TW and CS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Andic Paleboralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Loonlake
  • PSC - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loonlake
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Andic Eutroboralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/29/1992 (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

    ABGR

    ACMI

    ANRA

    ARCO

    ARUV

    BERE

    CACO

    CARU

    LAOC

    MITEL

    PICO

    PIEN

    PSME

    SHCA

    SPBE

    STSC

    SYAL

    Abies grandis

    Acacia millefolia

    Antennaria racemosa

    Arabis cobrensis

    Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

    Berberis repens

    Calliandra conferta

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Larix occidentalis

    Mitella

    Pinus contorta

    Picea engelmannii

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Shepherdia canadensis

    Spiraea beauverdiana

    Stemodia schottii

    Symphoricarpos albus

    grand fir

    milfoil wattle

    raceme pussytoes

    sagebrush rockcress

    kinnikinnick

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    Rio Grande stickpea

    pinegrass

    western larch

    miterwort

    lodgepole pine

    Engelmann spruce

    Douglas-fir

    russet buffaloberry

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    Rio Grande twintip

    common snowberry

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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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    1030

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    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments.
    Bs—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03903
    2E—28 to 66 centimeters (11.0 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very gravelly loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03904
    2E/Bt—66 to 96 centimeters (26.0 to 37.8 inches); 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3), 20 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03905
    2E/Bt—66 to 96 centimeters (26.0 to 37.8 inches); 80 percent brown (10YR 5/3), 80 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 92P03905
    2Bt—96 to 157 centimeters (37.8 to 61.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 92P03906