IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Putnam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2003MO137003
  • User Pedon ID: 2003MO137003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0313703
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30423
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.4636389
  • Std. Longitude: -92.1699167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T54N
  • Range: R11W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 565 feet E and 1490 feet N of the SW corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO137—Monroe
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO602—Knox, Monroe, and Shelby Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39092-D2—Madison, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Paine
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Putnam
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/8/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess derived from mixed over clayey pedisediment derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/8/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39092d2ne
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    0—41

    23—203

    41—203

    —41—

    —180—

    —162—
    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

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    —

    242.6

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    232

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025093; observed in push tube
    EB—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025094; observed in push tube
    Btg1—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 65 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025095; observed in push tube
    Btg2—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 50 percent faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025096; observed in push tube
    Btg3—89 to 109 centimeters (35.0 to 42.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 fine pores; 5 percent faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 25 percent faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025097; observed in push tube
    Btg4—109 to 124 centimeters (42.9 to 48.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 fine pores; 10 percent faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025098; observed in push tube
    Btg5—124 to 142 centimeters (48.8 to 55.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent faint gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent faint dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025099; observed in push tube
    Btg6—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU025100; observed in push tube