IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): GARA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1987MO121003
  • User Pedon ID: 1987MO121003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8712103
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30693
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.8465385
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5730286
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T58N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 180 feet west and 2010 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: 2600 ft E. of highway oo. East line of of sec. 9. Borders SE corner of the NE 1/4, NE 1/4, SE , SE 1/4, sec. 9, T. 58 N. R. 15 W.
  • Map Unit: 50001—Armstrong loam, 5 to 9 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO121—Macon
  • MLRA: 109—Iowa and Missouri Heavy Till Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO121—Macon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39092-G5—Bevier North, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - GARA
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armstrong
  • Classificaton Date - 11/9/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till derived from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39092g5nw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    0—20

    36—152

    36—152

    —20—

    —116—

    —116—
    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

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    261.8

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; ; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU031663; observed in pit, large or quarry
    E/A—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior ; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU031664; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bt1—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior ; strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU031665; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bt2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior ; weak very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU031666; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bt3—61 to 119 centimeters (24.0 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior ; weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent coarse light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 20 percent coarse pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU031667; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2B/C—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and light gray (10YR 7/1) interior ; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 15 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6. Lab sample # MU031668; observed in pit, large or quarry