IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): VAEDA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974MT105004
  • User Pedon ID: S1974MT105004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3737
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39402
  • 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: 47.9868851
  • Std. Longitude: -106.7259979
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 39E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet north and 200 feet east of SW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT105—Valley
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT105—Valley County, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47106-H6—Lewis Reservoir, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, nonacid, 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 - VAEDA
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vanda
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1974 (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
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    A2—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine vesicular pores; 75 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry, on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A28792
    A1—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A28797
    C1CS—9 to 25 centimeters (3.5 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; moderate fine and medium platy structure; hard when dry, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry, on faces of peds; 3 percent fine noncoherent cemented calcite crystals; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A28793
    C2—25 to 74 centimeters (9.8 to 29.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1), dark gray (5Y 4/1), moist; silty clay; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented calcite crystals; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A28794
    C2—74 to 132 centimeters (29.1 to 52.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A28795
    C2—132 to 183 centimeters (52.0 to 72.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A28796