IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moko
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990MO167120M
  • User Pedon ID: 1990MO167120
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116708
  • 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: 37.4302472
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5712278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R24W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1320 feet W and 1400 feet N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 1320'W and 1400'N of SE corner of 9/31/24
  • Map Unit: 70014—Moko-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Larry E. Kickler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Moko
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moko
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy slope alluvium and/or residuum weathered from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/1990 (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

    lithic contact

    0—36

    36—203

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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

    18

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    329

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    95

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; flaggy silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots; 30 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015557
    A2—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; extremely flaggy silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 70 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015558
    R—36 centimeters (14.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.