IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reeder
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956MT111007
  • User Pedon ID: S1956MT111007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956MT111007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3479
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38594
  • 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: 45.5185356
  • Std. Longitude: -108.5938034
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 25E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: .25 mile south and .25 mile west of northeast corner
  • 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: Dave R. Cawlfield
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Argiborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Reeder
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Absarokee
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1956 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARFR4

    FEID

    KOELE

    PASM

    POSE

    Artemisia frigida

    Festuca idahoensis

    Koeleria

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Poa secunda

    prairie sagewort

    Idaho fescue

    Junegrass

    western wheatgrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

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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

    2

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    1219

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    135

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26914. moderate fine crumb structure.
    B21t—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; medium prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A26915
    B22t—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; strong fine and medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A26916
    B23t—41 to 48 centimeters (16.1 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26917
    C1ca—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (10YR 5/3), white (10YR 8/1), dry; clay loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 10 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26918
    IIC2ca—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26919. Shattered sandstone with interstices filled with fine earth, fine earth makes up about 50 percent of the mass.
    IIR—89 centimeters (35.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A26920. Unweathered hard sandstone (not sampled).