IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PHILLIPS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967MT105002
  • User Pedon ID: S1967MT105002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967MT105002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3653
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39318
  • 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: 48.3333321
  • Std. Longitude: -106.1666641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 39E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 450 feet north and 200 feet west of SE corner
  • Location Description: 12 miles northwest of Glasgow
  • Map Unit: 46—Phillips loam, 0 to 4 percent slopes
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT105—Valley
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT105—Valley County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.L. Moshier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Borollic Paleargids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - PHILLIPS
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Phillips
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous, continental clayey subglacial till
  • Landform: glacial till plain
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/1967 (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

    BOGR2

    HECOC8

    KOMA

    LYCOP2

    PASM

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Koeleria macrantha

    Lycopodium

    Pascopyrum smithii

    blue grama

    needle and thread

    prairie Junegrass

    clubmoss

    western wheatgrass

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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

    4

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    732

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    30

    23

    120

    6

    19

    -9

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    A11—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; strong fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28138
    A12—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, moist; loam; moderate thin platy, and moderate very thin platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent thin sand coats; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28139. continuous - phpvsfiid 289192; continuous - phpvsfiid 289192
    BA—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); 75 percent brown (10YR 5/3) crushed and 25 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), 75 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 25 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium platy, and moderate thick platy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; thick clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28140. clay films on B2; very porus
    Bt2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) crushed and brown (10YR 4/3) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay; strong fine and medium prismatic, and strong fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; thick clay films and thick clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28141. continuous - phpvsfiid 289194; patchy - phpvsfiid 289195; continuous - phpvsfiid 289194; patchy - phpvsfiid 289195
    Bac3—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) crushed and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) crushed, moist; clay loam; strong fine and medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; thin clay films; 30 percent weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses around rock fragments; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28142. clay films are broken
    Cac1—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) crushed and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; strong fine and medium prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent carbonate masses and 10 percent threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A28143
    C2—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak very thick platy structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent threadlike gypsum masses and 10 percent carbonate masses and 10 percent threadlike gypsum masses and 10 percent carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A28144
    Csc3—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; weak very thick platy structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent threadlike gypsum masses and 30 percent gypsum crystal clusters and weakly coherent cemented gypsum masses around rock fragments; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A28145