IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bigbeaver
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992MT089012
  • User Pedon ID: 92MT089012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992MT089012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0388
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 65731
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 47.7116661
  • Std. Longitude: -115.5102768
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 31W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet west and 2100 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Floodplain - Beaver Creek. Earl Faro place.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT089—Sanders
  • MLRA: 44A—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT651—Sanders and Parts of Lincoln and Flathead Counties, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GS, TW, and CS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, acid, frigid Aeric Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigbeaver
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigbeaver
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, nonacid, frigid Typic Udifluv
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/28/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/28/1992 (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

    CAREX

    POTEN

    SYAL

    VERON

    Carex

    Potentilla

    Symphoricarpos albus

    Veronica

    sedge

    cinquefoil

    common snowberry

    speedwell

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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

    1

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    786

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    90

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P02892
    C1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; 1 percent distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P02893
    C2—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; 1 percent distinct mottles; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02894
    C3—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; 3 percent distinct mottles; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02895
    C4—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) prominent mottles; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P02896
    C5—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; loam, very fine sandy loam, silt loam; 1 percent distinct and 21 percent prominent mottles; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 93P02897