IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Headwaters
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007MT031001
  • User Pedon ID: S07MT031001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0151
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19612
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 45.8026657
  • Std. Longitude: -111.5863037
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 20C—Headwaters loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT031—Gallatin
  • MLRA: 44B—Central Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT622—Gallatin County Area, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45111-G5—Three Forks SE, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Rolfes
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Headwaters
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Calciustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/2/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    808

    Table Mountain

    SCAN
    Ap—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular and 8.0 fine irregular pores; 35 percent coarse spherical carbonate masses throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01020; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—16 to 52 centimeters (6.3 to 20.5 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 27 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine tubular and 8.0 very fine irregular and 8.0 fine tubular and 8.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent medium spherical carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01021; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—52 to 86 centimeters (20.5 to 33.9 inches);, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular and 8.0 very fine tubular and 8.0 fine tubular and 8.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent medium spherical carbonate masses throughout and 25 percent medium cylindrical gypsum masses throughout and 25 percent medium threadlike gypsum masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01022; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bky—86 to 100 centimeters (33.9 to 39.4 inches);, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent medium cylindrical gypsum masses throughout and 10 percent medium threadlike gypsum masses throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01023; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    By—100 to 150 centimeters (39.4 to 59.1 inches);, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.8 very fine irregular and 0.8 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter. Lab sample # 08N01024; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small