IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chillicothe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1994MO117019m
  • User Pedon ID: 1994MO117019m
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9411719
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33121
  • 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: 39.7708321
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7375031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T57N
  • Range: R25W
  • Section: 8
  • Location Description: 1,725 east and 400 feet south of northwest corner sec. 8, T. 57 N., R. 25 W.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO117—Livingston
  • MLRA: 109—Iowa and Missouri Heavy Till Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: jbm, maa, jls
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chillicothe (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chillicothe
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 13
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—25

    25—127

    178—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

    7

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    272

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU050283
    A—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU050284
    Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots; 51 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU050285
    Bt2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots; 51 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU050286
    Bt3—74 to 127 centimeters (29.1 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium distinct and 5 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots; 26 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU050287
    2C—127 to 178 centimeters (50.0 to 70.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 26 percent distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU050288
    2R—178 centimeters (70.1 inches); limestone, unspecified fragments.