IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Utica
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004MT059016
  • User Pedon ID: S2004MT059016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004MT059016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0990
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17039
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 46.6305542
  • Std. Longitude: -111.1863861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 5
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT059—Meagher
  • MLRA: 44B—Central Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46111-F2—Fort Logan, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, carbonatic, superactive, frigid Aridic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Utica
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, carbonatic, superactive, frigid Aridic Calciustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/2004
  • 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: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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

    ARFR4

    BRIN2

    MEDIC

    POPR

    Artemisia frigida

    Bromus inermis

    Medicago

    Poa pratensis

    prairie sagewort

    smooth brome

    alfalfa

    Kentucky bluegrass

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

    8/13/2004

    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

    1

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    1426

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    345

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05431
    Bw—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N05432
    2Bk—23 to 110 centimeters (9.1 to 43.3 inches); extremely gravelly loamy sand; 9 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red. Lab sample # 04N05433