IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Martinsdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957MT107006
  • User Pedon ID: S1957MT107006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957MT107006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5332
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42579
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 6 N
  • Range: 14 E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 120' S, 40' E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: in native grass pasture
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT107—Wheatland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogen
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Martinsdale
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/1957
  • 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: 10/3/1957 (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

    CAFI

    GRIND

    HECOC8

    KOMA

    PHLOX

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Carex filifolia

    Grindelia

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Koeleria macrantha

    Phlox

    blue grama

    threadleaf sedge

    gumweed

    needle and thread

    prairie Junegrass

    phlox

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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

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    1524

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    381

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    5

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine platy parts to strong very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40119
    A2—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); 10YR 2/3 (10YR 2/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; moderate very fine granular, and weak fine platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A40120. continuous - phpvsfiid 454319; continuous - phpvsfiid 454319
    B1—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong medium blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to strong very fine blocky, and moderate fine prismatic parts to strong medium blocky, and moderate fine prismatic parts to strong very fine blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 7.5YR 2/4 (7.5YR 2/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A40121. continuous - phpvsfiid 454321; continuous - phpvsfiid 454321
    B2—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), dry; clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and strong medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry, and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40122. continuous - phpvsfiid 454322; continuous - phpvsfiid 454322
    Bk1—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; loam; moderate coarse platy, and massive; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40123
    Bk2—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; gravel, cobbles, clay loam; massive; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A40124
    C—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; gravel, cobbles, sand; single grain; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40125