IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hillon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962MT101002
  • User Pedon ID: S1962MT101002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3335
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38450
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 48.7393532
  • Std. Longitude: -111.4825668
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 0.4 mile E and 200 feet N of SW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT101—Toole
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT101—Toole County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. B. Grossman, J. L. Walker, C. A. Mogen and E. C. Nielson.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, frigid Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hillon
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Joplin
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    279

    —

    —

    5

    17.2

    -7.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A25979. Common balls of dark grayish-brown (10YR 4/2) remnants of B2 horizon as large as 3/8 inch diameter.
    B3ca—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A25980. Nearly 50 percent volume of white segregated lime mottles and many white lime casts on lower and undersides of gravels.
    C1ca1—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent very coarse carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A25981. Some nodules are hard lime casts around gravels.
    C1ca2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loam; moderate medium platy structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A25982. Lime casts and sockets around gravels.
    C2—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium platy structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; strong effervescence; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A25983
    IIC3—117 to 150 centimeters (46.1 to 59.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loam, sandy clay loam; moderate coarse platy structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; slight effervescence; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A25984
    IIIC4cs1—150 to 188 centimeters (59.1 to 74.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse platy parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent gypsum crystal clusters; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A25985. Three inch discontinuous band of sand.
    IIIC5cs2—188 to 229 centimeters (74.0 to 90.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse platy structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A25986