IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ramsey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990MO123011M
  • User Pedon ID: 1990MO123011M
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9012311
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 27938
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 37.6363907
  • Std. Longitude: -90.2983627
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T34N
  • Range: R7E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet S and 3700 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 2000 ft. S. and 3700 ft. E. of the NW corner of sec. 19, T. 34 N., R. 7 E.
  • Map Unit: 73148—Jonca silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes31C—Lamotte silt loam, 3 to 9 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO123—Madison
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO123—Madison County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37090-F3—Knob Lick, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RDC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, mesic Lithic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ramsey
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ramsey
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, siliceous, subactive, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/7/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 59 Cation exchange capacity to clay ratio


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over slope alluvium over solid rock
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: ridge
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/7/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: C-1
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    33 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—8

    8—33

    33—

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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

    5

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    271

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU019789
    Bt1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 35 percent faint clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU019790. Mixing of Ap in upper part of horizon; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 162000; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 162000
    Bt2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU019791. Uniform medium sized octahedral sand grains
    2Bt3—30 to 33 centimeters (11.8 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay loam; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine prominent and 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU019792
    2R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.