IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crystalex
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992MT053004
  • User Pedon ID: copyof92MT053004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992MT053004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0650
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64889
  • 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: 48.0769463
  • Std. Longitude: -115.1327744
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 27W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet E and 300 feet N of SW corner
  • Location Description: Near Crystal Lake.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT053—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 43A—Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT651—Sanders and Parts of Lincoln and Flathead Counties, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48115-A2—Loon Lake, Montana
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: TW and CS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Lamellic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crystalex
  • PSC - 53 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/21/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crystal
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/29/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACMI

    ARCO

    ARUV

    BERE

    CACO

    CARU

    FEID

    LAOC

    ORAS

    PICO

    PSME

    ROSA

    SYAL

    Acacia millefolia

    Arabis cobrensis

    Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

    Berberis repens

    Calliandra conferta

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Festuca idahoensis

    Larix occidentalis

    Oryzopsis asperifolia

    Pinus contorta

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Rorippa sarmentosa

    Symphoricarpos albus

    milfoil wattle

    sagebrush rockcress

    kinnikinnick

    Rio Grande stickpea

    pinegrass

    Idaho fescue

    western larch

    roughleaf ricegrass

    lodgepole pine

    Douglas-fir

    longrunner

    common snowberry

    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

    7

    1036

    225

    E1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; loamy sand; weak medium platy parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03907
    O—2 to 0 centimeters (0.8 to 0.0 inches); fragments.
    E2—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03908
    E/Bt1—53 to 94 centimeters (20.9 to 37.0 inches); 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3), 20 percent brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03909
    E/Bt1—53 to 94 centimeters (20.9 to 37.0 inches); 80 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), 80 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Bt texture may be sl
    E/Bt2—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3), 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fragments. Lab sample # 92P03910. Bt texture may be sl
    E/Bt2—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), 60 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog.