IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Turner
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 57MT021001
  • User Pedon ID: 57MT021001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 57MT021001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5313
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42560
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 47.5963667
  • Std. Longitude: -104.6188916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 N.
  • Range: 55 E.
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet west and .4 miles south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: In a vacent grass plot at edge of high bench nearby windmill and stack of baled straw. Sampled beyond the turnstrip of the cultivated field 60 feet to the north, undisturbed site.
  • Map Unit: Tw—Attewan loams, 2 to 4 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT021—Dawson
  • MLRA: 58A—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT021—Dawson County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. A. Mogan, Allen, Cawlfield, Clark, Smith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Turner
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/2010
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Edgar
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy loess and/or gravelly alluvium
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/4/2004 (entry creation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 15
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARCA12

    BOGR2

    CAFI

    HECOC8

    MUCU3

    PASM

    Artemisia campestris

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Carex filifolia

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Muhlenbergia cuspidata

    Pascopyrum smithii

    field sagewort

    blue grama

    threadleaf sedge

    needle and thread

    plains muhly

    western wheatgrass

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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
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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak medium platy parts to moderate fine crumb structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39970
    A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), 10YR 2.5/2 (10YR 2.5/2), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine crumb structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39971
    Bt1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds and faint clay films on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A39972. patchy - phpvsfiid 257992; patchy - phpvsfiid 257992
    Bt2—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate fine prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39973
    Bk—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; medium carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 7 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39974
    2C1—66 to 122 centimeters (26.0 to 48.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; very gravelly sand, cemented very gravelly sandy loam; single grain; loose by carbonates; 58 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39975
    2C2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; gravelly sand; single grain; loose; 23 percent by volume rounded 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A39976