IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): HARLEM
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1951MT085002
  • User Pedon ID: S1951MT085002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1951MT085002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3523
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39188
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 46E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 NW1/4
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT085—Roosevelt
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT661—Roosevelt and Daniels Counties, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. J. Cline
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic (calcareous), frigid Ustic Torrifluvents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - HARLEM
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - LOHMILLER
  • Classificaton Date - 9/5/1951
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/5/1951 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    BOGR2

    PASM

    SALVI

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Salvia

    blue grama

    western wheatgrass

    sage

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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
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    A11—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27199
    A12—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay, silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27200
    C1—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27201. poorly developed horizon of lime accumulation and some nodules and mycelia of lime occur throughout its mass.
    C2—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27202. Contains a few soft nodules and mycelia of calcium carbonate and possibly other salts.
    C3—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) distinct mottles; moderate medium granular, and platy structure; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27203. This horizon breaks down to relatively hard and stable aggregates 5 to 6-mm. in size that are plate-like in form but whose edges are beveled so that the aggregate often assumes the general appearance of a sunflower seed; these chip-like aggregates are loosely arranged within the horizon with their longest axis generally nearly horizontal; however, it is not uncommon to fine some sections of the profile in which the aggregates lie at oblique, and on occasion nearly vertical, angles; the faces of the individual aggregates have a colloidal sheen.
    C42—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam, silty clay; massive parts to platy; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27205
    C42—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; massive; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27204, 40A27205
    C42—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; silty clay loam; massive; very hard, firm; salt masses; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27204, 40A27205
    C41—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay, silty clay loam; platy structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27204