IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cargill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MT013004
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MT013004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3690
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39355
  • 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: 47.6665726
  • Std. Longitude: -111.6175537
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 740 feet west and 600 feet south of NE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT013—Cascade
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT613—Cascade County Area, 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 #: 4
  • 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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    1146

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    686

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    7.2

    18.3

    -4.4

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    AP—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 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; hard when dry, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28449; moist when described;
    B2—16 to 40 centimeters (6.3 to 15.7 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky 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; 1 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28450; moist when described;
    C1CA—40 to 59 centimeters (15.7 to 23.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and 3.0 medium pores; 3 percent lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28451; moist when described;
    2C2—59 to 79 centimeters (23.2 to 31.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) and brown (10YR 5/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; massive; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28452; moist when described;
    2C3—79 to 123 centimeters (31.1 to 48.4 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) and gray (10YR 5/1), moist; massive; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28453; moist when described;
    2C4—128 to 136 centimeters (50.4 to 53.5 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist; massive; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28454; moist when described;
    4C5—136 to 183 centimeters (53.5 to 72.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; massive; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A28455; moist when described;