IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shaak
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969MT005003
  • User Pedon ID: S1969MT005003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3678
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39343
  • 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: 47.9277000
  • Std. Longitude: -109.3558121
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet south and 1,250 feet east of W1/4 corner
  • Location Description: Blaine County, Montana.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT005—Blaine
  • MLRA: 46—Northern and Central Rocky Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT608—Blaine County and Part of Phillips County Area, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47109-H3—Nolan Reservoir, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. A. Anderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Abruptic Argiborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shaak
  • PSC - 19 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ervin
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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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    1067

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    135

    381

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    6.1

    19.4

    -6.7

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    AP—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28359
    A12—10 to 19 centimeters (3.9 to 7.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak very fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28360
    B21T—19 to 30 centimeters (7.5 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed and dark brown (10YR 3/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed and brown (10YR 4/3), dry; clay; strong very fine and fine columnar parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28361
    B22T—30 to 40 centimeters (11.8 to 15.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed and dark brown (10YR 3/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed and brown (10YR 4/3), dry; clay; strong fine prismatic parts to strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28362
    B31CA—40 to 55 centimeters (15.7 to 21.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; silty clay; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28363
    B32CACS—55 to 85 centimeters (21.7 to 33.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; silty clay; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28364
    C1CS—85 to 135 centimeters (33.5 to 53.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; clay loam; massive; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.1 very fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28365
    2C2—135 to 175 centimeters (53.1 to 68.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; fine gravelly sandy clay loam; massive; very hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.1 very fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A28366