IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Melville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957MT097001
  • User Pedon ID: S1957MT097001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957MT097001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5323
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42570
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 5 N
  • Range: 13 E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 1484' E and 120' S of NW corner
  • Location Description: SE of gate at bend in road in native grass pasture
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT097—Sweet Grass

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogen
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Melville
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/1957 (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

    FEID

    KOMA

    PSSP6

    Festuca idahoensis

    Koeleria macrantha

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Idaho fescue

    prairie Junegrass

    bluebunch 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

    1.5

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    1676

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    68

    432

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    4.4

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); 10YR 2.5/2 (10YR 2.5/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; weak fine platy parts to moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40047
    A12—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); gravelly loam; moderate fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40048. continuous - phpvsfiid 454724; continuous - phpvsfiid 454724
    B11—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); gravelly clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and strong fine angular blocky, and strong very fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40049. continuous - phpvsfiid 454725; continuous - phpvsfiid 454725
    B12—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, dry; clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium prismatic parts to strong very fine angular blocky, and strong fine prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky, and strong fine prismatic parts to strong very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, and dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A40050. continuous - phpvsfiid 454728; continuous - phpvsfiid 454728
    B13—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3), dry; clay loam; strong fine prismatic parts to strong very fine angular blocky, and strong fine prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium prismatic parts to strong very fine angular blocky, and strong medium prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A40051. continuous - phpvsfiid 454729; continuous - phpvsfiid 454729
    B2—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dry; gravelly clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A40052
    Bk1—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; gravelly clay loam; massive; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40053
    Bk2—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; massive; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40054
    C1—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40055
    C2—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments.