IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sampsel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO095002
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO095002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0509502
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30898
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 38.8909167
  • Std. Longitude: -94.3350556
  • 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: Aaron Woods
  • 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 - 18 to 68 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: 36.6 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: lower 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—36

    18—175

    18—203

    36—203

    36—

    142—

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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

    3

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    —

    307.8

    —

    355

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026537; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026538; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Btg2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout; 10 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films and 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions and 8 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026539; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Btg3—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films and 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, organoargillans; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026540; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Btg4—74 to 142 centimeters (29.1 to 55.9 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; 39 percent clay; prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans and 50 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026541; moist when described; observed in push tube
    3Btg5—142 to 208 centimeters (55.9 to 81.9 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; 46 percent clay; prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films and 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans; 15 percent red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings; 5 percent by volume indurated 5-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026542; moist when described; observed in push tube
    3Btg6—208 to 246 centimeters (81.9 to 96.9 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face clay; 48 percent clay; prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans and 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 5 percent red (2.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings and 45 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume indurated 5-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # MU64756; moist when described; observed in push tube