IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leighcan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996MT081004
  • User Pedon ID: 96MT081004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0448
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10131
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 45.9355545
  • Std. Longitude: -113.7283325
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 525 feet E and 1900 feet N of SW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT081—Ravalli
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT645—Bitterroot Valley Area, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45113-H6—Lick Creek, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed Typic Haplocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leighcan
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leighcan
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Dystric Cryochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: breaks
  • Landform: break
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: ABILAS/MENFER
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    62

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    1737

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    63

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Forest litter
    A—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02649
    Bw—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02650
    BC—33 to 82 centimeters (13.0 to 32.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02651
    C—82 to 155 centimeters (32.3 to 61.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; very gravelly sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 97P02652