IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cotton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO053054
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO053054
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8905354
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26840
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.7791667
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5843056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 850' S and 2050' W of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: 73978—Cotton silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO053—Cooper
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO053—Cooper County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-G5—Prairie Home, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John L. Baker, Greg Caldwell, David Skaer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Fragiaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cotton
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/16/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cotton
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 38.4 percent of Control section clay


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/1989 (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

    argillic horizon

    fragic soil properties

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—84

    64—145

    145—152

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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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    265.2

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior silt loam; 6 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; slow permeability; 5.0 very fine roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012321; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior silty clay; 3 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 45 percent clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 1 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt coats and 30 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses and 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012322; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 40 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.8 very fine roots; 10 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses and 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012323; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots; 2 percent distinct organic stains and 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012324; observed in pit, small
    2Btx1—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) exterior and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 67 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots; 25 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses and 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012325; observed in pit, small
    2Btx2—84 to 114 centimeters (33.1 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior silt loam; 6 percent sand; 74 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse platy structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots; 1 percent prominent clay films on top faces of peds and 1 percent distinct silt coats on tops of rock fragments; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses and 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012326; observed in pit, small
    2Btx3—114 to 145 centimeters (44.9 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior silt loam; 9 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots; 1 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct silt coats on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses and 25 percent fine prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012327; observed in pit, small
    3Bt1—145 to 152 centimeters (57.1 to 59.8 inches); 50 percent gray (5Y 6/1) exterior and 50 percent gray (5Y 5/1) exterior silty clay; 4 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 49 percent clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent pressure faces; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. Lab sample # MU012328; observed in pit, small