IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): GARA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990MO129009
  • User Pedon ID: 1990MO129009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9012909
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26474
  • 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: 40.3371620
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7052612
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T64N
  • Range: R25W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 990 feet east and 190 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: 2200 ft W. & 3400 ft N. of SW corner of sec. 15, T. 64 N., R. 25 W.
  • Map Unit: 30030—Armstrong clay loam, 9 to 14 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO129—Mercer
  • MLRA: 109—Iowa and Missouri Heavy Till Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO129—Mercer County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40093-C6—Modena, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Henry Ferguson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, smectitic, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - GARA
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armstrong
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till derived from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 40093c6nw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—15

    15—277

    15—152

    38—152

    —15—

    —262—

    —137—

    —114—
    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

    27

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    279.2

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    217

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; ; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009862; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior ; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009863; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior ; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009864; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior ; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 10 percent masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009865; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior ; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 21 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009866; observed in pit, small
    Bt5—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior ; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 4 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 21 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009867; observed in pit, small
    C—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior ; 10 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 20 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # MU009868; observed in pit, small