IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sturkie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO167072M
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO167072
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9316709
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 37.7188889
  • Std. Longitude: -93.2261111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T34N
  • Range: R21W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet W and 150 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 700 feet west and 150 feet south of the northeast corner of sec. 4, T. 34 N., R. 21 W.
  • Map Unit: 75378—Sturkie silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Aldrich, Richard Henderson, and John Bowers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sturkie
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Verdigris
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—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

    1

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    279

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU048824
    A—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU048825
    Bw1—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU048826
    Bw2—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU048827