IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dast
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004MT059015
  • User Pedon ID: S2004MT059015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004MT059015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0989
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17038
  • 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: 46.6488876
  • Std. Longitude: -111.2477798
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 5
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT059—Meagher
  • MLRA: 43B—Central Rocky Mountains
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 46111-F2—Fort Logan, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciustepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dast
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Calciustepts
  • PSC - 25 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone and siltstone
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    AGSP

    ARFR4

    ERNAN5

    FEID

    KOMA

    LUPIN

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia frigida

    Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa var. nauseosa

    Festuca idahoensis

    Koeleria macrantha

    Lupinus

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    prairie sagewort

    rubber rabbitbrush

    Idaho fescue

    prairie Junegrass

    lupine

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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

    24

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    1600

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    90

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05427
    A2—5 to 11 centimeters (2.0 to 4.3 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05428
    Bk—11 to 30 centimeters (4.3 to 11.8 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; massive; 0.5 very fine roots; 25 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, chlorophenol red; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05429
    Ck—30 to 68 centimeters (11.8 to 26.8 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; gravelly loam; 8 percent clay; massive; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N05430
    Cr—68 to 150 centimeters (26.8 to 59.1 inches); fragments.