IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ferd
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1953MT111007
  • User Pedon ID: S1953MT111007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3508
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39173
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 45.4902039
  • Std. Longitude: -108.4712982
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 26E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT111—Yellowstone
  • MLRA: 58A—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT111—Yellowstone County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.C. Bourne
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Borollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ferd
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hesper
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1953
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; weak thin platy structure; soft, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27102
    B1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to coarse platy structure; soft, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27103
    B21t—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to very fine and fine angular blocky structure; soft, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27104
    B22t—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; strong medium prismatic parts to fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27105
    B23t—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27106
    B3ca—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27107. highly calcareous.
    C1ca—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; massive parts to weak very coarse prismatic, and angular blocky; slightly hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27108. highly calcareous.
    C2—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; massive; soft, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27109. calcareous (not sampled).