IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Upsata
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002MT619012
  • User Pedon ID: 98MT029005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2002MT619012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0589
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14685
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 48.4686127
  • Std. Longitude: -114.2311096
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 26A-7—Andeptic Cryoboralfs, silty till substratum, calcareous, rolling
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT029—Flathead
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT619—Flathead National Forest Area, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GLS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed Andic Eutrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Upsata
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed Andic Eutrocryepts
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1998
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash over mixed noncalcareous glacial outwash
  • Landform: kame terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: ABLA/CLUN/MEFE
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    ABLA

    PICEA

    LAOC

    PIMO3

    PSME

    CLUN2

    XETE

    GATR3

    GOOB2

    VIOLA

    VAGL

    VACA13

    SPBE2

    RUPA

    ROSA5

    PAMY

    MEFE

    CHUM

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Picea

    Larix occidentalis

    Pinus monticola

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Clintonia uniflora

    Xerophyllum tenax

    Galium triflorum

    Goodyera oblongifolia

    Viola

    Vaccinium globulare

    Vaccinium caespitosum

    Spiraea betulifolia

    Rubus parviflorus

    Rosa

    Paxistima myrsinites

    Menziesia ferruginea

    Chimaphila umbellata

    subalpine fir

    spruce

    western larch

    western white pine

    Douglas-fir

    bride's bonnet

    common beargrass

    fragrant bedstraw

    western rattlesnake plantain

    violet

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    dwarf bilberry

    white spirea

    thimbleberry

    rose

    Oregon boxleaf

    rusty menziesia

    pipsissewa

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    18—74

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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

    4

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    1317

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    220

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    E—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, dry; gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly acid, pH 5.2.; observed in trench
    Bw—3 to 33 centimeters (1.2 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dry; gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # 02N02935; observed in trench
    2E/Bw—33 to 74 centimeters (13.0 to 29.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) exterior, dry; extremely cobbly loamy sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # 02N02936; observed in trench
    2C—74 to 152 centimeters (29.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) exterior, dry; extremely cobbly sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat rounded 75-163-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # 02N02937; observed in trench