IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Abor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971MT069004
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MT069004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3723
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39388
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 47.0440941
  • Std. Longitude: -108.4124298
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 26E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 1320 feet south and 700 feet west of center
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT069—Petroleum
  • MLRA: 58A—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT069—Petroleum County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Udorthentic Chromusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Abor
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Thebo
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • 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:
  • 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

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    A1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; strong fine granular structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28688
    C1—6 to 27 centimeters (2.4 to 10.6 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 medium and 0.5 fine pores; 30 percent prominent pressure faces; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28689
    C2—27 to 45 centimeters (10.6 to 17.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 medium and 0.5 fine pores; 75 percent prominent pressure faces; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28690
    C3—45 to 62 centimeters (17.7 to 24.4 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and gray (5Y 5/1), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 medium and coarse and 0.5 fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28691
    C4CS—62 to 88 centimeters (24.4 to 34.6 inches); gray (5Y 5/1), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist; clay; platy structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 21 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A28692
    C5CS—88 to 115 centimeters (34.6 to 45.3 inches); gray (5Y 5/1), very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist; clay; strong very fine and fine platy structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A28693
    C6CS—115 to 140 centimeters (45.3 to 55.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1), very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist; clay; strong very fine and fine platy structure; moderately sticky; gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A28694