IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Whitecow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006MT624904
  • User Pedon ID: S2006MT107001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006MT624904
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18840
  • 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: 46.6355553
  • Std. Longitude: -109.7941666
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Gaughler Ranch
  • Map Unit: 697B—Yaple-Ashuelot-Whitecow cobbly loams, 0 to 4 percent slopes
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT107—Wheatland
  • MLRA: 46—Northern and Central Rocky Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT624—Wheatland County Area, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46109-E7—Oka, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: TDL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, frigid Typic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Whitecow
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/2006
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Yaple
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous alluvium
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Depth: 152
  • Plant Association Name: 46/G/LyDr
  • 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

    CADU6

    KOMA

    STCOC2

    Artemisia frigida

    Carex duriuscula

    Koeleria macrantha

    Stipa comata var. comata

    prairie sagewort

    needleleaf sedge

    prairie Junegrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—14

    33—57

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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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    1475

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    40

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine irregular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 10 percent by volume 2 - 75-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04299; slightly moist when described;
    Bk1—14 to 33 centimeters (5.5 to 13.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist; gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent indurated cemented carbonate masses on faces of peds and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 10 percent coarse carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 20 percent by volume 2 - 75-? millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04300; slightly moist when described;
    Bk2—33 to 57 centimeters (13.0 to 22.4 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent indurated cemented carbonate masses on faces of peds and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 10 percent coarse carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 3 percent by volume 76 - 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2 - 75-? millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04301; slightly moist when described;
    2C1—57 to 90 centimeters (22.4 to 35.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 14 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 3.0 medium interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial and 3.0 coarse interstitial pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout and 10 percent coarse carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume 76 - 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume 2 - 75-? millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04302; slightly moist when described;
    2C2—90 to 180 centimeters (35.4 to 70.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; 10 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 3.0 medium interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial and 3.0 coarse interstitial pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 10 percent by volume 76 - 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume 2 - 75-? millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # 06N04303; slightly moist when described;