IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PUTNAM
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO139002
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO139002
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - MexPut-02
  • Transect Stop Number - 5
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0513902
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25871
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.1293611
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5952778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T50N
  • Range: R6W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 475 feet West and 485 feet South from the North East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO139—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO603—Montgomery and Warren Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39091-B5—Vandalia Lake, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Cook, Ralph Tucker, Grant Butler, Scott Paine
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - PUTNAM
  • PSC - 30 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Classificaton Date - 10/18/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Holocene Stage silty loess derived from mixed over Holocene Stage loamy 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: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/18/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39091b5sw
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—30

    20—203

    20—203

    30—203

    107—

    —30—

    —183—

    —183—

    —173—

    —1—
    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

    2

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    —

    241.7

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    20

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    —

    —

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 medium vesicular pores; fragments. Lab sample # MU005564; observed in push tube
    Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular and 0.5 fine vesicular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU005565; observed in push tube
    BE—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular and 0.5 fine vesicular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU005566; observed in push tube
    Btg1—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 70 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU005567; observed in push tube
    Btg2—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, 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. Lab sample # MU005568; observed in push tube
    Btg3—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, 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.; observed in push tube
    2Btg4—107 to 132 centimeters (42.1 to 52.0 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; strong coarse prismatic structure; firm; 12 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, 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. Lab sample # MU005570; observed in push tube
    2Btg5—132 to 203 centimeters (52.0 to 79.9 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; strong coarse prismatic structure; firm; 12 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU005571; observed in push tube