IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meagher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: SM04GA
  • User Pedon ID: S2004MT059020
  • Vegetation Plot ID: SM04GA
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0403
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17272
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 46.5558052
  • Std. Longitude: -111.1487808
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 554B—Martinsdale-Meagher complex, 2 to 4 percent slopes
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT059—Meagher
  • MLRA: 44—Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys
  • Regional Office: NW—Northwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT637—Meagher County Area, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46111-E2—Gipsy Lake, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brian Kozar
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Meagher
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed, mostly igneous alluvium and/or tertiary residuum
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: pediment
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments: subrounded 250- to 500-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Si-St,15-19
  • 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

    ACHIL

    AGSM

    ANTEN

    FEID

    ARFR4

    KOMA

    LYCOP2

    PSSPS

    Achillea

    Agropyron smithii

    Antennaria

    Festuca idahoensis

    Artemisia frigida

    Koeleria macrantha

    Lycopodium

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    yarrow

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    pussytoes

    Idaho fescue

    prairie sagewort

    prairie Junegrass

    clubmoss

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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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

    2

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    1672

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    58

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 14 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; 10.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 3 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02217
    Bt1—6 to 16 centimeters (2.4 to 6.3 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 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; 3 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N02218
    Bt2—16 to 39 centimeters (6.3 to 15.4 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; 0.5 very fine roots; 35 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 251-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02219
    Bk—39 to 60 centimeters (15.4 to 23.6 inches);, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; cobbly sandy loam; 14 percent clay; structureless massive; 0.5 very fine roots; carbonate masses in matrix and around rock fragments; 3 percent by volume 251-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 05N02220
    BCk—60 to 85 centimeters (23.6 to 33.5 inches);, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist; very cobbly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and structureless single grain; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; carbonate masses in matrix and around rock fragments; 5 percent by volume 251-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 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.