IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bascovy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971MT027001
  • User Pedon ID: S1971MT027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3722
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 39387
  • 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: 47.4118690
  • Std. Longitude: -108.8335648
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1320 feet north and 300 feet east of center
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT027—Fergus
  • MLRA: 58A—Northern Rolling High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT027—Fergus County, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Udorthentic Chromusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bascovy
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Thebo
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

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    AP—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; strong very fine and fine granular structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28682
    C1—12 to 32 centimeters (4.7 to 12.6 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; massive; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; prominent pressure faces; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28683
    C2—32 to 50 centimeters (12.6 to 19.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; massive; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; prominent pressure faces; 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28684
    C3—50 to 72 centimeters (19.7 to 28.3 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist; clay; massive; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine lime masses; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28685
    C4CS—72 to 95 centimeters (28.3 to 37.4 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist; clay; strong fine and medium platy structure; extremely hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 3 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; 3 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A28686
    C5—95 to 135 centimeters (37.4 to 53.1 inches);, very dark gray (5Y 3/1), moist; clay; platy structure; 1 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # 40A28687