IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Jeffcity
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004MT059009
  • User Pedon ID: S2004MT059009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004MT059009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0984
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17033
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 46.5611115
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0797195
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 10
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT059—Meagher
  • MLRA: 44B—Central Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46111-E1—Hanson Reservoir, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jeffcity
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 5 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from igneous rock
  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: structural bench
  • Bedrock: igneous, unspecified at 74cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGSP

    ARFR4

    ARTR2

    HECO26

    KOMA

    SPCO

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia frigida

    Artemisia tridentata

    Hesperostipa comata

    Koeleria macrantha

    Sphaeralcea coccinea

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    prairie sagewort

    big sagebrush

    needle and thread

    prairie Junegrass

    scarlet globemallow

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    74 -

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    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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    1592

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    160

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 15 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 very fine tubular and 4.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05400
    Bt—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 very fine interstitial and 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 04N05401
    Bk1—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent distinct carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05402
    Bk2—30 to 74 centimeters (11.8 to 29.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 6 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 4.0 fine irregular and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent distinct carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05403
    R—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); fragments.