IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Varney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004MT059013
  • User Pedon ID: S2004MT059013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004MT059013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0991
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17040
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 46.6255569
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0180588
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 18
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT059—Meagher
  • MLRA: 44B—Central Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46111-F1—Whitetail Reservoir, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jay Skovlin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Varney
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 5 to 26 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: pediment
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/2004 (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

    PSSP6

    POSE

    GUSA2

    KOMA

    ANTEN

    ACHIL

    SPCO

    ARTR2

    PHHO

    ARFR4

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Poa secunda

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Koeleria macrantha

    Antennaria

    Achillea

    Sphaeralcea coccinea

    Artemisia tridentata

    Phlox hoodii

    Artemisia frigida

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

    broom snakeweed

    prairie Junegrass

    pussytoes

    yarrow

    scarlet globemallow

    big sagebrush

    spiny phlox

    prairie sagewort

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    6/18/2004

    50

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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

    3

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    1553

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine irregular and 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-45-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05434; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); loam; 21 percent clay; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-45-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05435; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt2—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-45-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05436; moist when described; observed in trench
    Btk—26 to 34 centimeters (10.2 to 13.4 inches); loam; 26 percent clay; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 very fine irregular pores; 2 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05437; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bk1—34 to 67 centimeters (13.4 to 26.4 inches); loam; 24 percent clay; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine irregular and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05438; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bk2—67 to 119 centimeters (26.4 to 46.9 inches); loam; 18 percent clay; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine irregular pores; carbonate threads around rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-45-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05439; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bk3—119 to 155 centimeters (46.9 to 61.0 inches); gravelly fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine irregular pores; carbonate threads around rock fragments; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-45-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, cresol red. Lab sample # 04N05440; dry when described; observed in trench