IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Steele
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO155001
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO155001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9215501
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30826
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 36.0553627
  • Std. Longitude: -89.9137802
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 86065—Steele sandy loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO155—Pemiscot
  • MLRA: 131—Southern Mississippi Valley Alluvium
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO155—Pemiscot County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36089-A8—Denton, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P.G.Koenig, P.H. Kastens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy over clayey, mixed, superactive, nonacid, thermic Oxyaquic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Steele
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Steele
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy alluvium over clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: natural levee
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    strongly contrasting particle size class

    0—18

    76—76

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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

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    76.5

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loamy coarse sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU046220
    C1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; structureless single grain; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU046221
    C2—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) coarse sand; structureless single grain; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU046222
    2Ab—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots; prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds and prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU046223
    2C3—114 to 127 centimeters (44.9 to 50.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent fine and medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter. Lab sample # MU046224