IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cargill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MT013003
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MT013003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3691
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39356
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 47.6565704
  • Std. Longitude: -111.5572739
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 740 feet north and 680 feet east of S1/4 corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT013—Cascade
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT613—Cascade County Area, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47111-F5—Vaughn NE, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. O. Clark and D. H. Farnsworth
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Borollic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cargill
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cargill
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1970 (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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    1170

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    686

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    7.2

    18.3

    -4.4

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    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28456; moist when described;
    B2—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and 3.0 medium pores; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28457; moist when described;
    C1CA—43 to 57 centimeters (16.9 to 22.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed and brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and 3.0 medium pores; 3 percent medium and coarse lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28458; moist when described;
    2C2—57 to 110 centimeters (22.4 to 43.3 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and gray (10YR 5/1), moist; massive; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 pores; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28459; moist when described;
    2C3—110 to 167 centimeters (43.3 to 65.7 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/1) and pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and gray (2.5Y 5/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and gray (10YR 5/1), moist; clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28460; moist when described;
    3C4—167 to 174 centimeters (65.7 to 68.5 inches); yellow (10YR 8/8), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; massive; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28461; moist when described;
    4C5—174 to 183 centimeters (68.5 to 72.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2), gray (2.5Y 5/1) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (10YR 5/3), moist; clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A28462; moist when described;