IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Targhee Family
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10MT059001
  • User Pedon ID: S2010MT059001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0166
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46309
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 46.4851293
  • Std. Longitude: -110.7129876
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT059—Meagher
  • MLRA: 43B—Central Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT632—Lewis and Clark National Forest Area, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J Brooker & M Hansen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal Typic Haplocryepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Targhee Family
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal Typic Haplocryepts
  • Classificaton Date - 9/28/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from igneous rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/28/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: ABLA/VASC
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    3

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    2315

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    1106

    Elk Peak

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); 5.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00771
    E—8 to 26 centimeters (3.1 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 5.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 5.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent by volume flat 150-?-380 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00772
    Bw—26 to 62 centimeters (10.2 to 24.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely channery coarse sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 5.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 10.0 very coarse tubular and 10.0 very coarse irregular pores; 20 percent by volume flat 150-?-380 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00773
    C—62 to 117 centimeters (24.4 to 46.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; extremely flaggy sandy loam; 16 percent clay; massive; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 5.0 very coarse tubular and 5.0 very coarse interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat 150-?-380 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 11N00774