IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965MT081002
  • User Pedon ID: S1965MT081002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3630
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39295
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • LOCATION

  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1056 feet east and 150 feet north of south 1/4
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT081—Ravalli
  • MLRA: 44—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, frigid Typic Haploxerolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gird
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandstone
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1965 (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

    6

    0

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; strong fine and medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; skeletans; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A27937
    B21—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine tubular pores; skeletans on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A27938
    B22—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent skeletans on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27939
    B23—48 to 63 centimeters (18.9 to 24.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27940
    B24—63 to 79 centimeters (24.8 to 31.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27941
    C1—79 to 94 centimeters (31.1 to 37.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; loam; massive; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A27942
    R—94 centimeters (37.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27943