IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013MT035001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013MT035001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N97439
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73082
  • 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: 48.3495479
  • Std. Longitude: -113.3125086
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT035—Glacier
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT663—Glacier National Park Area - Parts of Glacier and Flathead Counties, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jay Skovlin, Mo Mislivets
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Pachic Argicryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till derived from shale and/or till derived from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • 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: 9/10/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—49

    49—120

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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

    15

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    1596

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    312

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    A1—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly loam; 44 percent sand; 19 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N13167
    A2—22 to 49 centimeters (8.7 to 19.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly loam; 35 percent sand; 21 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N13168
    Bt1—49 to 88 centimeters (19.3 to 34.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very gravelly loam; 32 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N13169
    Bt2—88 to 120 centimeters (34.6 to 47.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly clay loam; 27 percent sand; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 13N13170