IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mitten
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994MT089001
  • User Pedon ID: 94MT089001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994MT089001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0603
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66776
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 47.9883347
  • Std. Longitude: -115.6672211
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 32W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet east and 1500 feet south of northwest corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT089—Sanders
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT651—Sanders and Parts of Lincoln and Flathead Counties, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: TW
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Andic Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mitten
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mitten
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Andic Eutrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/12/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    AMAL2

    ARUV

    BERE

    PAMY

    PICO

    PSME

    SPBE

    SYAL

    THPL

    Abies grandis

    Amelanchier alnifolia

    Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

    Berberis repens

    Paxistima myrsinites

    Pinus contorta

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Spiraea beauverdiana

    Symphoricarpos albus

    Thuja plicata

    grand fir

    Saskatoon serviceberry

    kinnikinnick

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    Oregon boxleaf

    lodgepole pine

    Douglas-fir

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    common snowberry

    western redcedar

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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

    48

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    853

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    225

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Partially decomposed forest litter.
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P04368
    Bs—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P04369
    2E/Bw—33 to 72 centimeters (13.0 to 28.3 inches); 80 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 94P04370
    2E/Bw—72 to 72 centimeters (28.3 to 28.3 inches); 20 percent brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P04370
    2C—72 to 168 centimeters (28.3 to 66.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 94P04371