IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weller
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO019022
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO019022
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 37-1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9201922
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34292
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.9161542
  • Std. Longitude: -92.1673842
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Range: R11W
  • Section: 28
  • Location Description: 1300 feet east and 800 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 28, T. 48 N., R. 11W
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO019—Boone
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Fred J. Young
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Weller
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/16/1991
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium and/or colluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: bench
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/16/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—137

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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

    2

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    180

    914

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044180
    Bt—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine mottles; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 60 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3); 10 percent fine brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044181
    Btg1—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent faint ; 25 percent fine and medium brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 25 percent fine brown (10YR 5/3); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044182
    Btg2—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent faint ; 25 percent fine and medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044183
    2Btg3—89 to 137 centimeters (35.0 to 53.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; weak coarse platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044184
    2Btg4—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU044185