IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moko
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167245M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167245
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9216712
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 37.4960639
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5787417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R24W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet S and 1010 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 1200 feet south and 1010 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 21, T. 32 N., R. 24 W., Mitchel farm.
  • Map Unit: 70011—Goss-Moko complex, 8 to 35 percent slopes
  • 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 Kickler, John Bowers, Richard L. Henderson and Richard McBee
  • 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 25 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 25 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/16/1991
  • 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: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty at 25cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/16/1991 (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—25

    25—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

    16

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    299

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    125

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015944
    A2—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very cobbly silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU015945
    R—25 centimeters (9.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.