IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967MT005001
  • User Pedon ID: S1967MT005001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967MT005001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3651
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39316
  • Print Date: 4/28/2024

    • 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: 48.6666679
  • Std. Longitude: -109.0000000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet west and 600 feet south of northeast corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT005—Blaine
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. A. Anderson and R. L. Moshier
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Borollic Paleargids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Phillips
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous clayey subglacial till
  • Landform: glacial till plain
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/26/1967 (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

    ARFR4

    HECOC8

    KOMA

    LYCOP2

    PASM

    Artemisia frigida

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Koeleria macrantha

    Lycopodium

    Pascopyrum smithii

    prairie sagewort

    needle and thread

    prairie Junegrass

    clubmoss

    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    853

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    30

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    116

    5.5

    19

    -16.5

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak very thin platy, and weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A28123. 1 inch root mat at surface
    A12—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak thin platy, and weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A28124
    AB—12 to 23 centimeters (4.7 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak fine prismatic, and moderate fine and medium platy structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; thin silt coats on all faces of peds and thin sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A28125. continuous - phpvsfiid 291671; continuous - phpvsfiid 291672; continuous - phpvsfiid 291671; continuous - phpvsfiid 291672
    Bt21—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; clay loam; strong medium prismatic, and strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; thin sand coats on all faces of peds and thin silt coats on all faces of peds and thick clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28126. continuous - phpvsfiid 291673; continuous - phpvsfiid 291674; patchy - phpvsfiid 291675; continuous - phpvsfiid 291673; continuous - phpvsfiid 291674; patchy - phpvsfiid 291675
    Bac3—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); 10Y 6/3 (10Y 6/3), dark grayish olive (10Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic, and weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; thin clay films; 30 percent weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28127. patchy - phpvsfiid 291676; patchy - phpvsfiid 291676
    Cac1—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28128
    Cac2—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay loam; weak coarse platy structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent coarse threadlike gypsum crystal clusters and 30 percent coarse gypsum masses; fragments. Lab sample # 40A28129