IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reedwest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004MT059014
  • User Pedon ID: S2004MT059014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004MT059014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0988
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17037
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 46.6450005
  • Std. Longitude: -111.2091675
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 3
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT059—Meagher
  • MLRA: 43B—Central Rocky Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46111-F2—Fort Logan, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Reedwest
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 6 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/2004
  • 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 and/or residuum weathered from calcareous siltstone
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/2004 (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

    FEID

    KOMA

    LYCOP2

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia frigida

    Festuca idahoensis

    Koeleria macrantha

    Lycopodium

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    prairie sagewort

    Idaho fescue

    prairie Junegrass

    clubmoss

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

    bedrock, paralithic

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    52 - 150

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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

    11

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    1521

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    45

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); sandy loam; 16 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05423
    ABt—6 to 20 centimeters (2.4 to 7.9 inches); sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05424
    Bt—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); very gravelly sandy clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine roots; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05425
    Ck—40 to 52 centimeters (15.7 to 20.5 inches); gravelly clay loam; 30 percent clay; massive; 0.5 very fine roots; 5 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red. Lab sample # 04N05426
    Cr—52 to 150 centimeters (20.5 to 59.1 inches); fragments.