IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moko
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1994MO067043M
  • User Pedon ID: 1994MO067043
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1994MO067043
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9406716
  • 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: 36.9947944
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8926805
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T27N
  • Range: R18W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet N and 480 feet E of the center
  • Location Description: extreme western Douglas Co. Jusst NE of Ongo or 0.75 miles east of the Douglas Christian Co line and 1.5 miles south of highway 14
  • Map Unit: 73228—Gatewood-Moko complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, very rocky, very flaggy
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO067—Douglas
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO067—Douglas County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gary Lindgren & Bill Shields
  • 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 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gasconade
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/8/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy slope alluvium and/or residuum weathered from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: s moderate weathered dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments: 6.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/8/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2249-35
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    SONU2

    Sorghastrum nutans

    Indiangrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—23

    23—0

    28—0

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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

    11

    —

    —

    439

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    133

    1092

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    12.8

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    —

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    5227

    Mansfield

    TAPS
    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very gravelly loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 60 percent faint very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; 36 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU016334. continuous - phpvsfiid 127753; continuous - phpvsfiid 127753
    A2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very gravelly clay loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 4.0 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 45 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU016335
    Cr—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) weathered bedrock; fragments.
    R—28 centimeters (11.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Hard dolomite.