IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Notter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: SM02WE
  • User Pedon ID: S2004MT059018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: SM02WE
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0401
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17270
  • 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: 46.6445274
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0371094
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 955C—Varney, stony-Coyoteflats, very stony complex, cool, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT059—Meagher
  • MLRA: 44—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT637—Meagher County Area, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46111-F1—Whitetail Reservoir, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brian Kozar
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcidic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Notter
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcidic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 9/9/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: tertiary residuum and/or alluvium derived from sandstone
  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: dissected sedimentary plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments: subangular 250- to 450-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/9/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Si-St,10-14
  • 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

    AGDA

    PSSPS

    ARTR2

    GUSA2

    KOMA

    STCO4

    ARFR4

    BOGR2

    Agropyron dasystachyum

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    Artemisia tridentata

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Koeleria macrantha

    Stipa comata

    Artemisia frigida

    Bouteloua gracilis

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    bluebunch wheatgrass

    big sagebrush

    broom snakeweed

    prairie Junegrass

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    prairie sagewort

    blue grama

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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

    4

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    1499

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    210

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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; cobbly loam; 14 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02209; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—4 to 14 centimeters (1.6 to 5.5 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; cobbly clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02210; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—14 to 25 centimeters (5.5 to 9.8 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N02211; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—25 to 88 centimeters (9.8 to 34.6 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; gravelly loam; 13 percent clay; structureless massive, and moderate medium subangular blocky; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; carbonate coats on rock fragments; 5 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02212; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—88 to 113 centimeters (34.6 to 44.5 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; gravelly loam; 13 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; carbonate coats on rock fragments; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4.; observed in auger, bucket