IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Creed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968MT051001
  • User Pedon ID: S1968MT051001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3667
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39332
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 48.4982452
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0814362
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 0.25 mile north and 200 feet west of SE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT051—Liberty
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT051—Liberty County, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48111-D1—Sagebrush Coulee, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. L. Moshier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Borollic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Creed
  • PSC - 15 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kinread
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/1968 (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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    975

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    279

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    5

    17.8

    -10

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    AP2—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; massive, and weak granular; very hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A28261; moist when described;
    0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A28270
    B21T—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silty clay; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28262; moist when described;
    B22T—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silty clay; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28263; moist when described;
    B31CA—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28264; moist when described;
    B32CA—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28265; moist when described;
    C1CA—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28266; moist when described;
    C2CA—99 to 132 centimeters (39.0 to 52.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silty clay; massive; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28267; moist when described;
    2C3CS—132 to 157 centimeters (52.0 to 61.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 3 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) medium and 3 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) medium mottles; weak coarse and very coarse platy structure; extremely hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent gypsum threads; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28268; moist when described;
    2C4CS—157 to 196 centimeters (61.8 to 77.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse and very coarse platy structure; extremely hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent medium and coarse gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A28269; moist when described;