IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): VANDA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971MT013004
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MT013004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3725
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39390
  • 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: 47.5843506
  • Std. Longitude: -111.4958801
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet north and 150 feet west of SE corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT013—Cascade
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT613—Cascade County Area, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic (calcareous), frigid Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - VANDA
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vanda
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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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    1033

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    7.8

    18.3

    -4.4

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    AP—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist; silty clay; weak very fine granular structure; very hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28703
    C1—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist; silty clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28704
    C2CS—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist; silty clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 21 percent fine and medium gypsum crystals, unspecified and 21 percent fine and medium opal; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28705
    C3CS—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist; silty clay; massive; extremely hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 21 percent fine and medium gypsum crystals, unspecified and 21 percent fine and medium opal; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28706
    C4CS—84 to 118 centimeters (33.1 to 46.5 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist; silty clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 3 percent fine and medium gypsum crystals, unspecified and 3 percent fine and medium opal; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28707
    C5CS—118 to 150 centimeters (46.5 to 59.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1), dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist; silty clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 3 percent fine and medium gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28708
    C6CS—150 to 195 centimeters (59.1 to 76.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1), dark gray (5Y 4/1) and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent fine and medium gypsum crystals, unspecified and 1 percent fine and medium opal; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A28709