IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Caruthersville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO143003
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO143003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8914303
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30849
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 36.5842514
  • Std. Longitude: -89.3878021
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 86012—Caruthersville very fine sandy loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO143—New Madrid
  • MLRA: 131—Southern Mississippi Valley Alluvium
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO143—New Madrid County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36089-E4—Hubbard Lake, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B.L. Brown, M.T. Aide
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Caruthersville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Caruthersville
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/31/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    0—46

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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

    0

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    91.4

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 very fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035795
    A—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; hard, friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035796
    C1—46 to 79 centimeters (18.1 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; structureless massive; hard, very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 1 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) iron-manganese masses; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035797
    C2—79 to 124 centimeters (31.1 to 48.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035798
    C3—124 to 157 centimeters (48.8 to 61.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent worm casts and 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035799
    C4—157 to 188 centimeters (61.8 to 74.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified and 1 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH meter. Lab sample # MU035800