IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ethridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1953MT111009
  • User Pedon ID: S1953MT111009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1953MT111009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3509
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39174
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 45.8810387
  • Std. Longitude: -108.1243515
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 29E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: northwest part of SE 1/4 of NW 1/4
  • Location Description: (just east of road).
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT111—Yellowstone
  • MLRA: 58A—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT111—Yellowstone County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.C. Bourne
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Aridic Argiborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ethridge
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hesper
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1953
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ARTEM

    BOUTE

    Artemisia

    Bouteloua

    sagebrush

    grama

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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

    3

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak very thin platy structure; soft, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27110. noncalcareous.
    B21t—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak thin platy structure; slightly hard, firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27111. noncalcareous.
    B22t—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; silty clay; strong medium and coarse prismatic structure; hard, friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A27112. noncalcareous.
    B23t—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27113. noncalcareous.
    B3—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A27114. calcareous.
    Cca—51 to 97 centimeters (20.1 to 38.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; clay loam; massive parts to weak very coarse subangular blocky; hard, friable; fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A27115