IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sturkie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO057086M
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO057086
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9205786
  • 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: 37.4032667
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8069056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R26W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet W and 900 feet N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 300 ft. west and 900 ft. north of the southeast corner of sec. 20, T 31 N, R 26 W.
  • Map Unit: 75378—Sturkie silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Aldrich, Charles Harwood and R. D. Chorice
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sturkie
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/24/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Position: drainageway
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/24/1992 (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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—38

    38—114

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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

    1

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    273

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044802
    BE—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044803
    Bt1—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044804
    Bt2—69 to 114 centimeters (27.2 to 44.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots; 5 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 5 percent distinct skeletans in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044805
    Bt3—114 to 140 centimeters (44.9 to 55.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots; 5 percent distinct skeletans on faces of peds and 26 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044806
    Bt4—140 to 163 centimeters (55.1 to 64.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 26 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044807
    C—163 to 203 centimeters (64.2 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; massive; firm; 5 percent distinct skeletans in root channels and/or pores and 5 percent distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU044808