IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sampsel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO095001
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO095001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0509501
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30899
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.8925278
  • Std. Longitude: -94.3225833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R31W
  • Section: 15
  • Map Unit: 10116—Sampsel silty clay loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO095—Jackson
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO095—Jackson County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38094-H3—Lake Jacomo, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.R. Perkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sampsel
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiaquolls
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/13/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 40 percent of Control section clay


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess over clayey loess over residuum weathered from clayey shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: shale, clayey
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/2005 (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

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—38

    25—175

    25—203

    38—203

    38—

    127—

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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

    4

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    —

    301.1

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    260

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026529; moist when described; observed in push tube
    A—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026530; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 40 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MU026531; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Btg2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); 90 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face and 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face silty clay; 42 percent clay; prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; 5 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026532; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Btg3—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); 60 percent gray (10YR 5/1) broken face and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face silty clay; 42 percent clay; prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent dark gray (7.5YR 4/1), moist, organoargillans and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 3 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026533; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Btg4—81 to 127 centimeters (31.9 to 50.0 inches); 70 percent gray (10YR 5/1) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 4 percent manganese coatings and 5 percent iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026534; moist when described; observed in push tube
    3Btg5—127 to 175 centimeters (50.0 to 68.9 inches); 90 percent gray (10YR 6/1) broken face and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, skeletans and 20 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; 10 percent 7.5YR 3/6 (7.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent manganese coatings; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026535; moist when described; observed in push tube
    3BCg—175 to 203 centimeters (68.9 to 79.9 inches); 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay; 41 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films; 5 percent manganese coatings and 5 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026536; moist when described; observed in push tube