IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bascom
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963MT103001
  • User Pedon ID: S1963MT103001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1963MT103001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5336
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42583
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 7 N
  • Range: 37 E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1/4 mile E and 50' S of N 1/4 corner
  • Location Description: inside junction of trails
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT103—Treasure

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogen
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bascom
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/1963 (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

    AGROP2

    ARTEM

    SARCO

    Agropyron

    Artemisia

    Sarcobatus

    wheatgrass

    sagebrush

    greasewood

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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

    8

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    A1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay; strong very fine angular blocky, and strong very fine granular, and massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40148
    A2—4 to 10 centimeters (1.6 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay; weak very fine angular blocky, and very coarse blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, very sticky; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40149
    By1—10 to 46 centimeters (3.9 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay; massive, and weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky; extremely hard, friable, very sticky; fragments. Lab sample # 40A40150
    By2—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) and olive gray (5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky, and massive; extremely hard, friable, very sticky; fragments.
    Ry—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; clay; extremely hard; fragments.