IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Battlebutte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990MT089003
  • User Pedon ID: copyof90MT089003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0322
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62255
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 47.8452797
  • Std. Longitude: -114.6261139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 24W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet W and 900 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Sanders County, Montana.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT089—Sanders

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Battlebutte
  • PSC - 10 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1990 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    paralithic contact

    18—30

    30—48

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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

    30

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    945

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    41

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    6

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    6

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    A 1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; gravelly loam; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P1922. few medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    A 2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P1922. combined A horizon - 7 to 11 inches thick; few medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    B w—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P1923. few medium roots; many very fine and fine roots
    CB—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; gravelly loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P1924. few fine roots; common very fine roots
    C r—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 90P1925. semi-consolidated welded tuff