IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kremlin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018MT087001P1
  • User Pedon ID: S2018MT087001P1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0126
  • User Project ID: 2018 - 05MIL - 001
  • Project Name: DSP - MT - 2019 - Comparison of Tilled Low Diversity/No Till High Diversity Cropping in Kremlin series Rosebud County
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 46.2741000
  • Std. Longitude: -106.5700083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 171—Spinekop silty clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT087—Rosebud
  • MLRA: 58A—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NW-MIL—Miles City, Montana
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT649—Rosebud County Area and Part of Big Horn County, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46106-C5—Orinoco, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brian Kloster; Raven Chavez
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kremlin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/24/2018
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: sedimentary plains
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Yellowstone River Paleoterrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R058AY001MT Loamy (Lo) 10-14 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Brian Kloster; Raven Chavez
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Kind of Land: rangeland
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

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    0—15

    15—33

    33—121

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    —15—

    —18—

    —88—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    834

    —

    330

    —

    125

    6.1

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 45 percent sand; 20 percent clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; many (5.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) medium roots throughout and very few (2.0) fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH indicator solutions.
    Ap2—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 45 percent sand; 23 percent clay; strong very coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; many (5.0) very fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH indicator solutions.
    Bw1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 45 percent sand; 24 percent clay; strong very coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky structure; moderately few (3.0) very fine roots throughout; many (5.0) very fine pores; faint clay films; ; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH indicator solutions.
    Bw2—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 40 percent sand; 25 percent clay; strong very coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very few (2.0) very fine roots throughout; many (5.0) very fine pores; faint clay films; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH indicator solutions.
    Bk1—33 to 66 centimeters (13.0 to 26.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; 33 percent sand; 26 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; many (3.0) very fine roots throughout and few (1.0) fine roots throughout; many (3.0) very fine and few (1.0) fine pores; 40 percent distinct carbonate masses; fragments; second stage carbonates developled on coarse fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions.
    Bk2—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; loam; 48 percent sand; 25 percent clay; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine pores; 5 percent carbonate masses; fragments; first stage carbonates developled on coarse fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions.
    Bk3—94 to 121 centimeters (37.0 to 47.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 12 percent clay; very few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine pores; 5 percent carbonate masses; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; first stage carbonates developled on coarse fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions.
    BC—121 to 165 centimeters (47.6 to 65.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 26 percent clay; very few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; few (1.0) very fine pores; 10 percent carbonate masses; 3 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; first stage carbonates developled on coarse fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, pH indicator solutions.