IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO129007
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO129007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8912907
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31207
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 40.4300003
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7283325
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T65N
  • Range: 2R5
  • Section: 17
  • Location Description: 2200 feet north and 150 feet west of the SE corner of sec. 17, T65N, R25W
  • Map Unit: 30063—Gara loam, 9 to 14 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO129—Mercer
  • MLRA: 109—Iowa and Missouri Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO129—Mercer County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gara
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gara
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/20/1989 (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

    0—15

    15—43

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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
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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; weak fine platy parts to weak fine granular structure; many fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035685
    Bt1—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; common fine roots; 3 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films; 7 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035686
    Bt2—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; few fine roots; 7 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films; 25 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035687
    Bt3—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 7 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films; 7 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay depletions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035688
    C1—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; weak fine prismatic structure; 5 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films; 3 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese concretions and 15 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay depletions; medium prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2) carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035689
    C2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak medium prismatic structure; 15 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2); medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2) carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # MU035690