IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: S2013MT011001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013MT011001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N97459
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74402
  • 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: 45.2566111
  • Std. Longitude: -104.4017528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 60E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: The site is approximately 300 meters south and 332 meters east of the northwest corner.
  • Location Description: The site is located on BLM land approximately 80 kilometers south of Ekalaka,MT on highway 323.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT011—Carter
  • MLRA: 60B—Pierre Shale Plains, Northern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45104-C4—Finger Buttes West, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Amber Mason, Brian Kloster
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Fine residuum weathered from semiconsolidated shale of the Montana Group
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: low hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent moderate weathered shale, clayey at 84cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Pierre Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    slickensides

    0—18

    55—84

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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

    6

    —

    —

    1073

    —

    155

    359

    —

    123

    6.2

    —

    —

    8.7

    —

    —

    —

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    240088

    Albion 1 N, Montana

    COOP
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; ; fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N13276
    Bw—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; silty clay; 41 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N13277
    Bk—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay; 43 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; 3 percent carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N13278
    Bky—43 to 55 centimeters (16.9 to 21.7 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; silty clay; 44 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; 5 percent carbonate masses in matrix and 2 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N13279
    Bkssy—55 to 68 centimeters (21.7 to 26.8 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) silty clay; 44 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; 1 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds and 1 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; 5 percent carbonate masses in matrix and 7 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix; fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N13280
    CBkssy—68 to 84 centimeters (26.8 to 33.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay; 46 percent clay; massive; very firm, slightly sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots in cracks; 2 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 3 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 2 percent carbonate masses in matrix and 3 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix; fragments; very slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N13281
    Cr—84 to 175 centimeters (33.1 to 68.9 inches); ; 2 percent masses of oxidized iron in cracks; carbonate masses and gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 13N13282