IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Macmeal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996MT081007
  • User Pedon ID: 96MT081007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0451
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10134
  • 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: 45.9294434
  • Std. Longitude: -114.1833344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 21W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1350 feet W and 2350 feet S of NE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT081—Ravalli
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT645—Bitterroot Valley Area, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45114-H2—Burnt Ridge, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Macmeal
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Macmeal
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Eutroboralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1996
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: PSEMEN/PHYMAL-CALRUB
  • 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

    38

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    1478

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    288

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    Oi—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); fragments. Forest litter. Not sampled.
    E—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P02661
    E/Bt—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), brown (10YR 5/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist; 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; 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02662. E 80% (A); Bt 20%.
    Bt/E—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02663. Bt 65% (B); E 35%.
    BC—84 to 165 centimeters (33.1 to 65.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 97P02664