IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): WHITEFISH
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997MT029004
  • User Pedon ID: 97MT029004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0302
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10573
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 48.2541656
  • Std. Longitude: -114.4702759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT029—Flathead
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT618—Flathead County Area and Part of Lincoln County, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48114-C4—Rhodes, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - WHITEFISH
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Eutroboralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/1997
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: Rhodes C
  • 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
    • 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

    14

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    1109

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    125

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 98P01842. Partially decomposed forest litter.
    A—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; gravelly silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P01841
    E—6 to 13 centimeters (2.4 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P01842
    2E/Bt—13 to 41 centimeters (5.1 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2) and very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 1 percent by volume subrounded 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 35 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 60 percent percent of profile occupied by this horizon and 40 percent percent of profile occupied by this horizon (volume percent); noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P01843
    2Bt—41 to 87 centimeters (16.1 to 34.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 1 percent by volume subrounded 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 35 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P01844
    2Bk—87 to 155 centimeters (34.3 to 61.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; very gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 10 percent fine and medium dendritic noncoherent cemented carbonate threads in cracks; 1 percent by volume subrounded 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 35 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 98P01845