IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Turner
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969MT005007
  • User Pedon ID: S1969MT005007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969MT005007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3685
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39350
  • 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: 48.0277023
  • Std. Longitude: -109.0338593
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1,320 feet east and 800 feet south 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: 48109-A1—Rattlesnake, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. A. Anderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Turner
  • PSC - 14 to 44 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Thorrel
  • Classificaton Date - 8/22/1969
  • 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: 8/22/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    BOGR2

    FEID

    HECOC8

    PASM

    PSSP6

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Festuca idahoensis

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    blue grama

    Idaho fescue

    needle and thread

    western wheatgrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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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

    1

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    1006

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    135

    381

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    6.1

    19.4

    -6.7

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak fine and medium platy parts to moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 very fine and fine pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28411
    A12—5 to 14 centimeters (2.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; moderate very fine and fine platy parts to strong very fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28412
    B21T—14 to 27 centimeters (5.5 to 10.6 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) 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, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28413
    B22T—27 to 44 centimeters (10.6 to 17.3 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) crushed and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28414
    C1CA—44 to 63 centimeters (17.3 to 24.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; massive; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine pores; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28415
    2C2CA—63 to 84 centimeters (24.8 to 33.1 inches); coarse sand; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28416
    2C3—84 to 110 centimeters (33.1 to 43.3 inches); very gravelly coarse sand; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28417
    3C4—110 to 150 centimeters (43.3 to 59.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; very fine sand, very fine sandy loam, loam, silt loam; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A28418