IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Creed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968MT051002
  • User Pedon ID: S1968MT051002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3668
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39333
  • 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: 48.6707458
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0608826
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: about 0.25 mile east and 1050 feet north 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-F1—Lakey Ranch, 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 #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Creed
  • PSC - 15 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kinread
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1968 (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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    —

    1006

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    279

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    5

    17.8

    -9.4

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    0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A28280
    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, and massive; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A28271; moist when described;
    B21T—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 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; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28272; moist when described;
    B22T—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 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; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28273; moist when described;
    B31CA—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silty clay; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28274; moist when described;
    B32CA—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28275; dry when described;
    C1CA—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 1 percent gypsum threads; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28276; dry when described;
    C2CS—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; massive; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine pores; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent gypsum threads; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A28277; dry when described;
    C3CS—124 to 165 centimeters (48.8 to 65.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3 percent gypsum threads; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28278; dry when described;
    C4—165 to 188 centimeters (65.0 to 74.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist; silt loam, silty clay loam; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) prominent and 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) prominent mottles; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine gypsum threads; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A28279; dry when described;