IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cairo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004MO201003
  • User Pedon ID: 2004MO201003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0420102
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26645
  • 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: 37.0784035
  • Std. Longitude: -89.4745789
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 86055—Sharkey silty clay loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO031—Cape Girardeau
  • MLRA: 131—Southern Mississippi Valley Alluvium
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO201—Scott County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37089-A4—Thebes SW, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KG, JDC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cairo
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/2004
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy over sandy alluvium
  • Landscape: lowland
  • Landform: terrace
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/20/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    strongly contrasting textural stratification

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    92 - 92

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—60

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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

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    98.5

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    Ap—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 10.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010933
    Bw1—22 to 45 centimeters (8.7 to 17.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 8.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 2 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010934
    Bw2—45 to 60 centimeters (17.7 to 23.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 8.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese nodules and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010935
    BC—60 to 92 centimeters (23.6 to 36.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.1 very fine roots; 5.0 fine vesicular pores; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese nodules; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010936
    C1—92 to 118 centimeters (36.2 to 46.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.1 very fine roots; 5.0 fine vesicular pores; 5 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010937
    C2—118 to 155 centimeters (46.5 to 61.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 fine vesicular pores; 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010938
    C3—155 to 177 centimeters (61.0 to 69.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) stratified stratified loamy sand to sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 fine vesicular pores; prominent 10Y 5/0 (10Y 5/0) iron depletions and 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010939
    C4—177 to 215 centimeters (69.7 to 84.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; structureless single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # MU010940