IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Judith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957MT045001
  • User Pedon ID: S1957MT045001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957MT045001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5321
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42568
  • 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: 47.2427788
  • Std. Longitude: -110.3847198
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 N
  • Range: 14 E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 0.2 of a mile north of the south 1/4 corner
  • Location Description: in the native grass of the horse pasture on Montana's Moccasin Agricultural Experiment Substation
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT045—Judith Basin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogen
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Judith
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1957
  • 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: 10/1/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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

    HECOC8

    NAVI4

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Nassella viridula

    blue grama

    needle and thread

    green needlegrass

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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

    0.5

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    1310.6

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    356

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    6.1

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate fine platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A40032
    A12—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; weak fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A40033
    B1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); 10YR 2.5/2 (10YR 2.5/2) crushed, dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; clay loam; moderate fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A40034. continuous - phpvsfiid 452092; continuous - phpvsfiid 452092
    B2—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay loam; moderate fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10YR 2.5/2 (10YR 2.5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A40035. continuous - phpvsfiid 452093; continuous - phpvsfiid 452093
    Bk1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), white (10YR 8/1) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40036
    Bk2—46 to 84 centimeters (18.1 to 33.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry; very gravelly clay loam; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40037
    Bk3—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 8/3) and very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very gravelly sand; single grain, and massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40038
    C—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40039