IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Roellen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004MO201005
  • User Pedon ID: 2004MO201005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0420104
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30992
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 37.0814514
  • Std. Longitude: -89.4676514
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 86057a—Sharkey silty clay, 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: Fine, smectitic, thermic Cumulic Vertic Epiaquolls
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Roellen
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Cumulic Vertic Epiaquolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/2004
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: lowland
  • Landform: terrace
  • Drainage Class: 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—87

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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

    0.5

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    98.5

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 8.0 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent pressure faces; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026220
    Bg1—5 to 48 centimeters (2.0 to 18.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 8.0 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent pressure faces; 10 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026221
    Bg2—48 to 87 centimeters (18.9 to 34.3 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 8.0 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent pressure faces; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026222
    Cg1—87 to 127 centimeters (34.3 to 50.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 8.0 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent distinct dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) clay films; 1 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 5 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026223
    2Cg2—127 to 185 centimeters (50.0 to 72.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; 8 percent distinct dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) clay films; 5 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026224
    3Cg3—185 to 240 centimeters (72.8 to 94.5 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay; strong coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) clay films; fragments. Lab sample # MU026225