IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014MT035002
  • User Pedon ID: S2014MT035002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0272
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79535
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 48.7198427
  • Std. Longitude: -113.4781405
  • 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: J. Skovlin & B. Rowley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Pachic Haplocryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC - Duplicate - 2014MT6630315
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Unknown
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/2017
  • Classifier - Jay Skovlin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/7/2014 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

    Bt1

    Bt2

    Bt3

    0

    18

    42

    69

    18

    42

    69

    115

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    A

    Bt1

    Bt2

    Bt3

    0

    18

    42

    69

    18

    42

    69

    115

    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A

    Bt1

    Bt2

    Bt3

    0

    18

    42

    69

    18

    42

    69

    115

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

    ochric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    6—48

    13—48

    48—140

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    1404

    60

    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; very gravelly loam; 45 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 16 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; , 8 percent by weight 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and , 8 percent by weight 76-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 5 percent by volume 251-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and , 8 percent by weight 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and , 8 percent by weight 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N01635
    Bt1—18 to 42 centimeters (7.1 to 16.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very cobbly loam; 42 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent clay films on rock fragments; , 13 percent by weight 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and , 13 percent by weight 76-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 5 percent by volume 251-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and , 13 percent by weight 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and , 13 percent by weight 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N01636
    Bt2—42 to 69 centimeters (16.5 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; very cobbly loam; 46 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 25 percent clay films on rock fragments; , 30 percent by weight 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and , 30 percent by weight 76-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 10 percent by volume 251-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and , 30 percent by weight 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and , 30 percent by weight 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N01637
    Bt3—69 to 115 centimeters (27.2 to 45.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; very stony loam; 48 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent clay films on all faces of peds; , 17 percent by weight 20-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and , 17 percent by weight 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by weighed method and 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and , 17 percent by weight 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and , 17 percent by weight 251-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.1, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 15N01638