IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MT027001
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MT027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3692
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39357
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 47.2838058
  • Std. Longitude: -110.0255432
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 960 feet west and 970 feet south of N1/4 corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT027—Fergus
  • MLRA: 46—Northern and Central Rocky Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT027—Fergus County, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47110-C1—Coffee Creek, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogen and E. K. Hogan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairfield
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Coffeek
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: fan
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • 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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    1128

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    381

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    6.7

    17.2

    -3.9

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A28463; moist when described;
    B2—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28464; moist when described;
    B3—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A28465; moist when described;
    C1CA—25 to 76 centimeters (9.8 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28466; moist when described;
    C2CA—76 to 132 centimeters (29.9 to 52.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay; massive; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; violent effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A28467; moist when described;
    C3—132 to 183 centimeters (52.0 to 72.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A28468; moist when described;