IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Midway
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006MT624908
  • User Pedon ID: S2006MT107007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2006MT624908
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N1015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18846
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 46.6941681
  • Std. Longitude: -109.7966690
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Judith Basin-Wheatland County line.
  • State: Montana
  • MLRA: 46—Northern and Central Rocky Mountain Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT624—Wheatland County Area, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46109-F7—Judith Gap, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: TDL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid, shallow Vertic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Midway
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, frigid, shallow Vertic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 45 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2006
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Water Depth: 45
  • Plant Association Name: 46/G/SwCy
  • 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

    KOMA

    STCOC2

    Artemisia frigida

    Koeleria macrantha

    Stipa comata var. comata

    prairie sagewort

    prairie Junegrass

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    45 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—27

    8—27

    45—

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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

    5

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    1439

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    154

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular, and moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine irregular and 0.2 medium irregular and 0.2 medium tubular and 2.0 fine irregular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2 - 5-? millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04331; slightly moist when described;
    Bw—8 to 27 centimeters (3.1 to 10.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; 38 percent clay; strong fine prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine irregular and 0.2 medium irregular and 0.2 medium tubular and 2.0 fine irregular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2 - 5-? millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N04332; slightly moist when described;
    C—27 to 45 centimeters (10.6 to 17.7 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; clay loam, paragravel; 38 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine irregular pores; 60 percent by volume 2 - 75-? millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N04333; slightly moist when described;
    Cr—45 to 200 centimeters (17.7 to 78.7 inches); 0.2 very fine roots around fragments and 1.0 very fine roots in cracks; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N04334