IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ashuelot
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006MT624902
  • User Pedon ID: S2006MT107004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006MT624902
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18843
  • 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: 46.5216675
  • Std. Longitude: -110.1022186
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Haymaker Ranch
  • Map Unit: 693B—Yaple-Ashuelot-Whitecow complex, 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: 46110-E1—Haymaker Ranch, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: TDL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, carbonatic, frigid, shallow Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashuelot
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, carbonatic, frigid, shallow Petrocalcic Calciustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/2006
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: 46/G/SwLy
  • 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

    CAFI

    KOPY

    LIPU

    STCO

    Artemisia frigida

    Carex filifolia

    Koeleria pyramidata

    Liatris punctata

    Stachys coccinea

    prairie sagewort

    threadleaf sedge

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    dotted blazing star

    scarlet hedgenettle

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    petrocalcic

    very strongly coherent

    38 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—9

    38—84

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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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    1508

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    200

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 14 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2 - 75-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04315; dry when described;
    Bk—9 to 38 centimeters (3.5 to 15.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; gravelly loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine irregular and 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent medium carbonate masses on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2 - 75-? millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04316; dry when described;
    2Bkm—38 to 84 centimeters (15.0 to 33.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), white (2.5Y 8/1), moist; Error; massive; very rigid, very rigid, nonsticky, nonplastic; very high excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine irregular and 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 76 - 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 2 - 75-? millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04317; dry when described;
    2Bkm—38 to 84 centimeters (15.0 to 33.1 inches); Error; very rigid, very rigid, nonsticky, nonplastic; very high excavation difficulty; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04346; dry when described;
    2C1—84 to 140 centimeters (33.1 to 55.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist; extremely gravelly loamy sand; 10 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 80 percent coarse carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 15 percent by volume 76 - 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 70 percent by volume 2 - 75-? millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N04318; dry when described;
    2C2—140 to 200 centimeters (55.1 to 78.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist; extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 80 percent fine carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume 76 - 250-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 75 percent by volume 2 - 75-? millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4. Lab sample # 06N04319; dry when described;