Soil-Woodland Correlation Data Sheet (MT-ECS-5) Instructions

Location Data Line

• Plot Number:
  • Site: enter number, one to three digits (1 to 999). This number is to be identical to the pedon number assigned by the Soil Scientist. Year, state, and county numbers must also agree.
  • Year: enter last two digits of the year.
  • State and County: enter FIPS numerical code. (same as timekeeping code numbers)
• Cover Type: Enter SAF forest cover type number.
• Major Land Resource Area (MLRA): Enter number and subdivision, if any
• State Plane Coordinates or Section, Township, and Range: Either system may be used. If coordinates are used, round to show probable accuracy. If section, township, and range is used, enter in this fashion: 29 T14N R7W.
• Elevation: Enter in whole feet, nearest 100 is close enough.

Physical Data Line

• Precipitation: Enter in whole inches.
• Landform: Enter code from following:
  SM - Swamps and marshes
  B - Basins, playas, lakebeds
  FP - Flood plains. bottoms
  ST Stream terraces
  F - Fans, alluvial, colluvial
  LP - Level and undulating uplands, plains, and plateaus
  RP - Rolling and hilly plains, plateaus, and uplands
  M - Mountains, steep hills, dissected plateaus
  SD Sand dunes, sand hills
  FL - Flatwoods (SE)
• Slope
  • Percent: in whole numbers, use 99 for slopes over 99.
  • Kind: Enter the code "P" if slope is plane, single, or simple. Enter the code "I" if slope is irregular or complex.
  • Shape: leave blank if kind of slope was coded "P". Use one of the following codes if kind of slope was coded "I".
    • Concave horizontally
    • Concave vertically
    • Convex horizontally
    • Convex vertically
    • Concave
    • Convex
  • Microrelief: Enter code below, if applicable.
    C - Cradle knoll
    G - Gilgal
    F - Frost Polygons
    T - Tree mounds
    M - Mounded, such as "biscuit mounds"
  • Aspect: Enter in degrees of azimuth read clockwise from true north.
  • Approximate Length of Slope: Enter in feet.
• Position on Slope: Enter code from below.
  L - Lower slope
  U - Upper slope
  M - Middle slope
  X - Non-influencing

Soil Data Line

• Detailed Profile: Enter "Y" if complete and suitable description is available, "N" if not so.
• Understory Information: Enter "Y" if detailed information has been taken, "N" if not so.
• Mensurational Information: Enter "Y" if detailed information has been taken, "N" if not so.
• Soil Series: Print the series name in full. If the series name is not known, use the series name which designates family thus: CORNING FAMILY.
• Texture, Modifier: Enter code below if applicable.
   

  BY - Bouldery BYV - Very bouldery BYX - Extremely bouldery CB - Cobbly CBA - Angular cobbly CBV - Very cobbly CN - Channery CNV - Very Channery CR - Cherty CRC - Coarse cherty CRV - Very Cherty FL - Flaggy FLV - Very flaggy

  GR - Gravelly GRC - Coarse gravelly GRF - Fine gravelly GRV - Very Gravelly MK - Mucky PT - Peaty SH - Shaley SHV - Very shaley ST - Stony STV - Very stony STX - Extremely stony SY - Slaty

• Texture, Type: Enter a code from below.
   

  S -Sand COS - Coarse sand FS - Fine sand VFS - Very fine sand LCOS - Loamy coarse sand LS - Loamy sand LFS - Loamy fine sand LVFS - Loamy very fine sand COSL - Coarse sandy loam SL - Sandy loam FSL - Fine sandy loam VSFL - Very fine sandy loam L - Loam SIL - Silt loam

  SI - Silt SCL - Sandy clay loam CL - Clay loam SICL - Silty clay loam SC - Sandy clay C - Clay SIC - Silty clay FB - Fibric material HM Hemic material MARL - Marl MPT - Mucky - peat MUCK - Muck PEAT - Peat CIND - Cinders

• Past Erosion:
  • Past erosion moderate or less (classes 1 and 2).
  • Past erosion severe or greater (classes 3 and over).
• Drainage Class:
  • Very poor
  • Poor
  • Somewhat poor
  • Moderately well
  • Well
  • Somewhat excess
  • Excessive
• Altered Water Relations: Leave blank if no alteration. Code "W" if wetted. Dode "D" if drained.

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Last Modified: 08/14/2008