IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vanstel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1953MT111010
  • User Pedon ID: S1953MT111010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1953MT111010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3518
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39183
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 45.8938179
  • Std. Longitude: -108.1387939
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 29E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4 of NE1/4
  • Location Description: 50 feet east of road and 300 feet south of curve; south of short coulee.
  • 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-silty, mixed, frigid Borollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vanstel
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - KEISER
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1953
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHNA

    ARTEM

    BOGR2

    PASM

    Achnatherum

    Artemisia

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Pascopyrum smithii

    needlegrass

    sagebrush

    blue grama

    western wheatgrass

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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

    3

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    1036

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    A1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; weak platy parts to weak very fine granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27166
    B21T—6 to 13 centimeters (2.4 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak platy parts to strong fine granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27167
    B22T—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27168
    B3—23 to 42 centimeters (9.1 to 16.5 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27169. white spots.
    C1CA—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27170. white flecks and spots.
    C2—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; massive; soft, friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27171. white lime splotches.