IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO089001
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO089001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0508901
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30924
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 38.9810278
  • Std. Longitude: -92.6164167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T48N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 4
  • Map Unit: 66007—Leta silty clay, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO089—Howard
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO089—Howard County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-H5—Rocheport, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Fred Young, Sheila Staton-Clifton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey over loamy Fluvaquentic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leta
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey over loamy Fluvaquentic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    0—28

    28—239

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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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    183

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026516; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Ap2—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, gray (10YR 5/1) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026517; observed in auger, bucket
    C1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); 60 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face and 20 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face stratified stratified very fine sandy loam to silty clay loam; weak fine platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent fine brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron lining pores and 25 percent fine masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026518; observed in auger, bucket
    C2—48 to 86 centimeters (18.9 to 33.9 inches); 60 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face and 40 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face stratified stratified silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent fine masses of oxidized iron lining pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026519; observed in auger, bucket
    2C3—86 to 165 centimeters (33.9 to 65.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face loamy fine sand; weak fine platy structure; loose; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026520; observed in auger, bucket
    2C4—165 to 216 centimeters (65.0 to 85.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face loamy fine sand; weak fine platy structure; loose; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026521; observed in auger, bucket
    C5—216 to 239 centimeters (85.0 to 94.1 inches); 40 percent gray (10YR 5/1) broken face and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face stratified stratified very fine sandy loam to silt loam; weak fine platy structure; very friable; 10 percent fine masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU64750; observed in auger, bucket