IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sula
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955MT081005
  • User Pedon ID: S1955MT081005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955MT081005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3544
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39209
  • 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: 45.9946060
  • Std. Longitude: -114.1787186
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 21W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: SW, SW, SW
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT081—Ravalli
  • MLRA: 44A—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT645—Bitterroot Valley Area, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. C. Bourne
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive Typic Cryoborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sula
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sula
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: bench
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/1955 (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

    ELRE4

    Elymus repens

    quackgrass

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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

    2

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A27344. the structure is to 3 inches and the other structure is 3 to 5 inches.
    B2—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A27345. some mixing of darker material from above; gray sprinklings on some of the ped surfaces.
    B3—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A27346. gray sprinklings on some of the ped surfaces.
    IIB2b—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) sandy clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A27347
    IIB3b—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly sandy clay loam; massive; very friable; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A27348. on structure planes and weakly calcareous in centers of peds; lime horizon of upper soil; about 20 to 30 percent gravel.
    IICcab—107 to 114 centimeters (42.1 to 44.9 inches); fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A27349. (Not sampled) Lime hard pan beginning abruptly.