IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Putnam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1993MO019008
  • User Pedon ID: 1993MO019008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9301908
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34254
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.2377500
  • Std. Longitude: -92.1701389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Section: 5
  • Location Description: 2700 feet west and 1600 feet south of the northwest corner sec. 5, T. 51 N., R. 11 W. (this is the location from the published soil survey)
  • Map Unit: 50012—Putnam silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO019—Boone
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO019—Boone County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Caryl Radatz Melvin Simmons
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Putnam
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Putnam
  • Classificaton Date - 5/26/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/26/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3
  • 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: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    reduced matrix

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—36

    23—183

    36—183

    36—36

    152—152

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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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    —

    265

    —

    914

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047248
    E—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047249
    Btg1—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 60 percent faint very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047250
    Btg2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 60 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047251
    Btg3—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 8 percent faint light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, silt coats and 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047252
    Btg4—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent faint light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, silt coats; medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047253
    2Btg5—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay loam; weak coarse and very coarse prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 6 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 1 percent fine faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU047254