IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rhame
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005MT059002
  • User Pedon ID: S2005MT059002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005MT059002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0126
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17841
  • 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: 46.5138512
  • Std. Longitude: -110.3119125
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 186C—Delpoint-Cabbart complex, cool, 2 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT059—Meagher
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT637—Meagher County Area, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Calciustolls
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rhame
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Aridic Calciustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 85 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/2005
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: plain
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/22/2005 (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

    ANPA4

    ARFR4

    CAFI

    ELMA7

    POPR

    KOMA

    HECO26

    GUSA2

    Antennaria parvifolia

    Artemisia frigida

    Carex filifolia

    Elymus macrourus

    Poa pratensis

    Koeleria macrantha

    Hesperostipa comata

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    small-leaf pussytoes

    prairie sagewort

    threadleaf sedge

    tufted wheatgrass

    Kentucky bluegrass

    prairie Junegrass

    needle and thread

    broom snakeweed

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    85 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—12

    12—85

    85—

    —12—

    —73—

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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

    4

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    1512

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    190

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 14 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; loose, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; ; 10 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # 06N00365
    Bk—12 to 37 centimeters (4.7 to 14.6 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; channery loam; 14 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # 06N00366
    BCk—37 to 85 centimeters (14.6 to 33.5 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; parachannery loam; 16 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 45 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-?-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4. Lab sample # 06N00367
    Cr—85 centimeters (33.5 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 06N00374