IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gideon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO143007
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO143007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8914307
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30840
  • 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: 36.4512215
  • Std. Longitude: -89.8553314
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 86031—Gideon loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, rarely 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-D7—Boekerton, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P. G. Koenig, P. H. Kastens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, thermic Fluvaquentic Epiaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gideon
  • 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 - Gideon
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: depression
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/1989 (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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—23

    23—185

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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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    81.4

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; coarse sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; ; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035820
    Bg1—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; coarse sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 1 percent fine prominent spherical yellowish red (5YR 5/8), dry, and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, and reddish brown (5YR 5/3), dry, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent very fine and fine iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; diffuse broken boundary. Lab sample # MU035821
    Bg2—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 25 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), dry, and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent very fine and fine iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; diffuse broken boundary. Lab sample # MU035822
    Bg3—84 to 119 centimeters (33.1 to 46.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 25 percent very fine and fine iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), dry, and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume rounded 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035823
    Bg4—119 to 173 centimeters (46.9 to 68.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dry, and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume rounded 2-?-7 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU035824
    Bg5—173 to 185 centimeters (68.1 to 72.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dry, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent prominent yellow (10YR 7/6) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-?-7 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter. Lab sample # MU035825