IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alder
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958MT045005
  • User Pedon ID: S1958MT045005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958MT045005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3482
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38597
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 47.3199120
  • Std. Longitude: -110.6489029
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet south and 75 feet west of center
  • 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 #: 5
  • 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

    ACHIL

    FEID

    KOMA

    LUPIN

    PASM

    POSE

    Achillea

    Festuca idahoensis

    Koeleria macrantha

    Lupinus

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Poa secunda

    yarrow

    Idaho fescue

    prairie Junegrass

    lupine

    western wheatgrass

    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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    1463

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    45

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A26933. thin charred layer 0.1 to .25-inch thick about 1 inch below the surface; moderate fine crumb structure.
    B1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A26934. patchy - phpvsfiid 176851; patchy - phpvsfiid 176851
    B21—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds and on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A26935. continuous - phpvsfiid 176852; patchy - phpvsfiid 176853; continuous - phpvsfiid 176852; patchy - phpvsfiid 176853
    B22—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A26936. continuous - phpvsfiid 192328; continuous - phpvsfiid 192328
    B3—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay; dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A26937. continuous - phpvsfiid 192329; continuous - phpvsfiid 192329
    IIR—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A26938. Not sampled.