IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brunelda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981MT087579
  • User Pedon ID: 81MT087579
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0711
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53498
  • 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: 46.6899986
  • Std. Longitude: -107.2833328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 35E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 2640 feet E and 1500 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Rosebud County, Montana.
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT087—Rosebud

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Cambic Gypsiorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 579
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brunelda
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brunelda
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Borollic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    4

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    915

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    28

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    6

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    1A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03518. many very fine roots
    1Bw—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03519. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; many very fine roots
    1Byz—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent fine gypsum masses and 30 percent fine salt masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03520. many fine masses of gypsum concentrations; many fine salt masses concentrations; common very fine roots
    1Bz—33 to 102 centimeters (13.0 to 40.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; clay; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine salt masses; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03521. common fine salt masses concentrations; few very fine roots
    1BC—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; clay; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P03523