IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cozdome
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005MT059003
  • User Pedon ID: S2005MT059003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005MT059003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0127
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17842
  • 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: 46.4892883
  • Std. Longitude: -110.3180847
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 127A—Musselshell-Crago complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT059—Meagher
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT637—Meagher County Area, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Haplustolls
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cozdome
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/2005
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • 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: 6/27/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ELTR7

    ELMA7

    PHHO

    HECO26

    POSE

    OPUNT

    SPCO

    Artemisia frigida

    Elymus trachycaulus

    Elymus macrourus

    Phlox hoodii

    Hesperostipa comata

    Poa secunda

    Opuntia

    Sphaeralcea coccinea

    prairie sagewort

    slender wheatgrass

    tufted wheatgrass

    spiny phlox

    needle and thread

    Sandberg bluegrass

    pricklypear

    scarlet globemallow

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    calcic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    0—14

    14—22

    22—53

    53—

    —14—

    —8—

    —31—

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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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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; cobbly loam; 14 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # 06N00368
    Bw—14 to 22 centimeters (5.5 to 8.7 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; 16 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # 06N00369
    Bk1—22 to 34 centimeters (8.7 to 13.4 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent carbonate masses in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4. Lab sample # 06N00370
    Bk2—34 to 53 centimeters (13.4 to 20.9 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 25 percent fine prominent carbonate masses in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4. Lab sample # 06N00371
    2Bk1—53 to 63 centimeters (20.9 to 24.8 inches);, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; extremely cobbly coarse sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 25 percent medium carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments and 25 percent medium prominent carbonate masses in matrix; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # 06N00372
    2Bk2—63 to 73 centimeters (24.8 to 28.7 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; 5 percent clay; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 25 percent medium carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # 06N00373