IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alder
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958MT045004
  • User Pedon ID: S1958MT045004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958MT045004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3481
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38596
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 47.3149109
  • Std. Longitude: -110.6402893
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 530 feet west of east quarter corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT045—Judith Basin
  • MLRA: 46—Northern and Central Rocky Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT602—Judith Basin Area, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47110-C6—Raynesford, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James Allen, Dave Cawlfield, Ernest Hogan, and John Parker.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Udic Argiborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alder
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alder
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/1958 (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

    ARFR4

    FEID

    GUSA2

    KOMA

    POSE

    Artemisia frigida

    Festuca idahoensis

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Koeleria macrantha

    Poa secunda

    prairie sagewort

    Idaho fescue

    broom snakeweed

    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

    3

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    1448

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A26928. Moderate fine crumb structure.
    B1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A26929
    B21—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds and on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A26930. continuous - phpvsfiid 176843; patchy - phpvsfiid 176847; continuous - phpvsfiid 176843; patchy - phpvsfiid 176847
    B22—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A26931. continuous - phpvsfiid 176848; continuous - phpvsfiid 176848
    B3—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds and on horizontal faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 40A26932. continuous - phpvsfiid 176849; patchy - phpvsfiid 176850; continuous - phpvsfiid 176849; patchy - phpvsfiid 176850