IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moko
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167226M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167226
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116749
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 37.7905722
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3988917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T35N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet S and 2300 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 900 feet south and 2300 feet west of the northeast corner of sec. 18, T. 35 N., R. 22 W
  • 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 and John Bowers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Moko
  • PSC - 0 to 33 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 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/1991
  • 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: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone) at 33cm
  • Surface Fragments: 12.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • 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—33

    33—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

    27

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    290

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    260

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; very gravelly clay loam; strong fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU015565
    A2—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; extremely channery clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 12 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 48 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # MU015566
    R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.