IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bew
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957MT107001
  • User Pedon ID: S1957MT107001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957MT107001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5327
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42574
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 8 N
  • Range: 16 E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 140' E and 36' N of SW corner
  • Location Description: in large native grass area of rangeland
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT107—Wheatland

    • PEDON

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

    CAFI

    HECOC8

    KOMA

    POSE

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Carex filifolia

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Koeleria macrantha

    Poa secunda

    blue grama

    threadleaf sedge

    needle and thread

    prairie Junegrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

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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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    1371.6

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    305

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    6.1

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; moderate medium platy parts to weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40082
    B1—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay loam; weak fine platy parts to strong very fine angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to strong very fine angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40083
    B21—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay; moderate very fine angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and strong fine prismatic, and strong medium prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A40084. continuous - phpvsfiid 453153; continuous - phpvsfiid 453153
    B22—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, dark grayish olive (10Y 4/2), dry; clay; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and strong medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and strong fine prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and strong fine prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; very dark grayish olive (10Y 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40085. continuous - phpvsfiid 453154; continuous - phpvsfiid 453154
    B23—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) crushed, dark grayish olive (10Y 4/2), dry; clay; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and strong medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and strong fine prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and strong fine prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; very dark grayish olive (10Y 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A40086. continuous - phpvsfiid 453155; continuous - phpvsfiid 453155
    Bk1—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), dry; clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A40087. continuous - phpvsfiid 453161; continuous - phpvsfiid 453161
    Bk2—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/3), dry; clay loam; strong very coarse prismatic structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A40088. patchy - phpvsfiid 453162; patchy - phpvsfiid 453162
    Bk3—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches);, pale yellow (2.5Y 8/3) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; clay loam; 21 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) coarse prominent and 21 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) coarse prominent mottles; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40089
    C—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4); fragments.