IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Swiss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO151029
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO151029
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9015149
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26570
  • 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: 38.5586667
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7345833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Section: 20
  • Location Description: Fritz Fredericks property, about 8 miles northeast of Linn. 780 feet east and 500 feet south of NW cor. sec. 20, T44N, R7W; USGS Fredericksburg quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: 73096—Swiss gravelly silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, stony
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO151—Osage
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO151—Osage County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Davis Brad Berhorst
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Swiss (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beemont
  • Classificaton Date - 9/8/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/8/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—23

    23—102

    102—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

    13

    —

    —

    268

    —

    300

    991

    —

    —

    12.8

    —

    —

    13.9

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    —

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    —

    —

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; gravelly silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010465
    E—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010466
    2Bt1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine to medium roots between peds; 0.8 very fine vesicular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron between peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010467. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145390; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145390
    2Bt2—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine and medium roots between peds; 20 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010468. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145391; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145391
    2Bt3—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay; 10 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) fine prominent irregular and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine prominent irregular mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine and fine roots between peds; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010469. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145392; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145392
    2Bt4—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); weak red (10R 5/2) interior clay; 10 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) fine prominent irregular mottles; weak fine prismatic parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.8 very fine and fine roots between peds; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010470. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145393; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145393
    2Bt5—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior and weak red (10R 5/2) interior silty clay; weak fine prismatic parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.8 very fine and fine roots between peds; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010471. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145394; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145394
    2Cd—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); weak red (10R 5/2) interior clay loam; 10 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) fine prominent irregular mottles; massive; extremely firm*; 0.8 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU010472, MU010473. This horizon consists of hard unweathered fire clay. It is massive with angular fracture planes 1 to 2 cm apart, between which the 8/2 mottles and the roots occur.