IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Waldbillig
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007MT089001
  • User Pedon ID: S2007MT089001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007MT089001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0155
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19616
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 47.1788902
  • Std. Longitude: -114.3336105
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Sleeping woman scan site.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT089—Sanders
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT651—Sanders and Parts of Lincoln and Flathead Counties, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47114-B3—Hewolf Mountain, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Svendsen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Andic Eutrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Waldbillig
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Andic Eutrocryepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Alpine Till
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope, ground moraine
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Argillite Rocks From Belt Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/20/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    ABLA

    MEFE

    PICEA

    PIPA2

    VASC

    GAYLU

    SALIX

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Menziesia ferruginea

    Picea

    Pinus palustris

    Vaccinium scoparium

    Gaylussacia

    Salix

    subalpine fir

    rusty menziesia

    spruce

    longleaf pine

    grouse whortleberry

    huckleberry

    willow

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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

    12

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    1865

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    16

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    783

    Sleeping Woman

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bw—4 to 20 centimeters (1.6 to 7.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very cobbly ashy very fine sandy loam; 3 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 very coarse roots and 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01038
    E—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; very cobbly fine sandy loam; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 very coarse roots and 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01039. Thin discontinous E below duff layer - not sampled, up to 1/2" thick in places. 3/4" sieve retained.
    E/Bw1—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); 85 percent white (10YR 8/1) and 15 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), gray (10YR 6/1) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 very coarse roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 2.0 very fine pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 08N01040. 3/4" sieve retained, 35% gravel, 85% E, and 15% Bw.
    E/Bw2—71 to 117 centimeters (28.0 to 46.1 inches); 70 percent white (10YR 8/1) and 30 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light gray (10YR 7/1) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very cobbly fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 2.0 very fine pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # 08N01041. Texture is FLS or SL. 3/4" sieve retained - 25% gravel, 70% E 30% Bw.