IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Acel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968MT013002
  • User Pedon ID: S1968MT013002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3658
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39323
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 47.6832390
  • Std. Longitude: -111.2128143
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1630 feet east and 170 feet south of NW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT013—Cascade
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT613—Cascade County Area, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47111-F2—Flick Lake, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. O. Clark and R. L. Moshier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Mollic Eutroboralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Acel
  • PSC - 28 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Acel
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/1968 (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

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    1097

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    305

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    6.1

    19.4

    -3.9

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    AP1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) rubbed and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; massive; very hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28175; moist when described;
    AP2—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) rubbed, dry; silty clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28176; moist when described;
    B21T—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3) crushed and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine and 0.5 medium pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28177; moist when described;
    B22T—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3) crushed and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine and 0.5 medium pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28178; moist when described;
    B31CA—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine and 0.5 medium pores; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28179; moist when described;
    B32CA—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) crushed and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine and 0.5 medium pores; 3 percent lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28180; moist when described;
    2C1CA—94 to 132 centimeters (37.0 to 52.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine and 0.5 medium pores; 1 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28181; moist when described;
    2C2CS—132 to 173 centimeters (52.0 to 68.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and very dark gray (5Y 3/1), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine and 0.5 medium pores; 1 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28182; moist when described;
    2C3CS—173 to 208 centimeters (68.1 to 81.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and very dark gray (5Y 3/1), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; clay loam; moderate medium and coarse platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent medium and coarse gypsum crystals, unspecified; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A28183; moist when described;