IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Floweree
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MT013001
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MT013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3694
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39359
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 47.6662979
  • Std. Longitude: -111.0905914
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 225 feet east and 1095 feet south of NW corner
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT013—Cascade
  • MLRA: 52—Brown Glaciated Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT613—Cascade County Area, Montana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 47111-F1—Floweree, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. O. Clark and D. H. Farnsworth
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Haploborolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Floweree
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dracut
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    997

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    686

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    7.2

    18.3

    -4.4

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    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28474; moist when described;
    B2—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and 0.5 medium and 3.0 fine pores; 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28475; moist when described;
    B3CA—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; hard when dry, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine and 0.5 medium and 3.0 fine pores; 3 percent medium lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28476; moist when described;
    C1CS—66 to 107 centimeters (26.0 to 42.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; stratified very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and 0.5 fine and medium pores; 21 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28477; moist when described;
    2C2—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; massive; hard when dry, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine to medium roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 1 percent medium and coarse gypsum threads; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28478; dry when described;
    3C3—140 to 147 centimeters (55.1 to 57.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; massive; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent medium and coarse gypsum threads; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28479; dry when described;
    3C4—147 to 183 centimeters (57.9 to 72.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A28480; dry when described;