IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013MT035002
  • User Pedon ID: S2013MT035002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N97440
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72848
  • Print Date: 4/28/2024

    • 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: 48.3773507
  • Std. Longitude: -113.2992498
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Montana
  • County: MT035—Glacier
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MT663—Glacier National Park Area - Parts of Glacier and Flathead Counties, Montana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Pat O'Connell, Jay Skovlin, Damon Pratt, Mike Roesch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, superactive Vertic Haplocryalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey till derived from clayey shale
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/18/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    5—14

    14—110

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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

    9

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    1665

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    145

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.
    E—5 to 14 centimeters (2.0 to 5.5 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; gravelly clay loam; 28 percent sand; 32 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 12 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N13171
    EBt—14 to 31 centimeters (5.5 to 12.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/1), dry; gravelly clay; 15 percent sand; 47 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent medium prominent yellow (10YR 7/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 13 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N13172
    Bt1—31 to 46 centimeters (12.2 to 18.1 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), gray (2.5Y 6/1), dry; gravelly clay; 20 percent sand; 45 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 13 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N13173
    Bt2—46 to 110 centimeters (18.1 to 43.3 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; gravelly clay; 22 percent sand; 40 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, slightly rigid, very sticky, very plastic; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 13N13174