IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Belain
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969MT005005
  • User Pedon ID: S1969MT005005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969MT005005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3674
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39339
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 48.0452003
  • Std. Longitude: -109.3291473
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 160 feet west and 120 feet north of S1/2 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. A. Anderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Haploborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Belain
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Belain
  • Classificaton Date - 8/21/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/21/1969 (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

    ARFR4

    FEID

    Artemisia frigida

    Festuca idahoensis

    prairie sagewort

    Idaho fescue

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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

    50

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    1341

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    0

    457

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    5.6

    18.3

    -6.7

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    A11—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28328
    0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A28333
    A12—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; loam; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A28329
    A3—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A28330
    B2—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A28331
    R—71 to 76 centimeters (28.0 to 29.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A28332