IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Triplett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2003MO117009m
  • User Pedon ID: 2003MO117009m
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0311709
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31117
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025
  • 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: 39.7635002
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5437927
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T57N
  • Range: R24W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet north and 4200 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Livingston County, Missouri; about 0.75 miles south of Chillicothe
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO117—Livingston
  • MLRA: 109—Iowa and Missouri Heavy Till Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Lindgren
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argialbolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Triplett
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Triplett
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 8
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—51

    51—191

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    —-

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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

    211

    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU024882
    AE—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); 80 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 20 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) coats on faces of peds; 1 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU024883. patchy - phpvsfiid 245833; patchy - phpvsfiid 245833
    E—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 6.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coats; 1 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine gray (10YR 6/1) clay depletions and 1 percent fine very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU024884. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245834; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 245834
    Btg1—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); 80 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 20 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; 46 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 6.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) coats and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine brown (10YR 4/3) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU024885. patchy - phpvsfiid 245835; continuous - phpvsfiid 245836; patchy - phpvsfiid 245835; continuous - phpvsfiid 245836
    Btg2—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; 49 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 6.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU024886. continuous - phpvsfiid 245837; continuous - phpvsfiid 245837
    Btg3—104 to 117 centimeters (40.9 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay; 42 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 6.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU024887
    Btg4—117 to 145 centimeters (46.1 to 57.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses and 12 percent fine and medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU024888
    Btg5—145 to 191 centimeters (57.1 to 75.2 inches); 60 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 40 percent gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent fine and medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU024889
    C—191 to 203 centimeters (75.2 to 79.9 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 40 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 26 percent clay; massive; firm; 6.0 very fine and fine pores; 1 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine and medium very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # MU024890