IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moko
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1993MO167333M
  • User Pedon ID: 1993MO167333
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9316713
  • 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: 37.7931250
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3933722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T35N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet W and 10 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 750 feet west and 10 feet south of the northeast corner of sec. 18, T. 35 N., R. 22 W
  • Map Unit: 70013—Moko very gravelly silt loam, 3 to 15 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: Richard L. Henderson and Richard E. McBee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Moko
  • PSC - 0 to 28 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 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/5/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone) at 28cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/5/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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—28

    28—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

    6

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    299

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    0

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; very gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # MU016220
    A2—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; very channery silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU016221
    R—28 centimeters (11.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.