IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PUTNAM
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO007001
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO007001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - MexPut-05
  • Transect Stop Number - 7
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0500701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25956
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.1476111
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6062778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T51N
  • Range: R6W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 2,176 feet East and 76 feet North from the South West corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO007—Audrain
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO007—Audrain County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39091-B5—Vandalia Lake, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Butler, Ralph Tucker, Teresa Gerber
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - PUTNAM
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - PUTNAM
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/19/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39092b1ne
  • 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 sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—36

    36—203

    —36—

    —167—
    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

    —

    —

    242.6

    —

    270

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006162; observed in push tube
    Ap2—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium platy structure; 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006163; observed in push tube
    E—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); 35 percent gray (10YR 5/1) broken face and 65 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 10.0 very fine roots; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006164; observed in push tube
    Btg1—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and 40 percent distinct 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006165; observed in push tube
    Btg2—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); 65 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006166; observed in push tube
    Btg3—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; 3.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006167; observed in push tube
    2Btg4—104 to 132 centimeters (40.9 to 52.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; 0.5 fine roots; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006168; observed in push tube
    2Btg5—132 to 203 centimeters (52.0 to 79.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU006169; observed in push tube