IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PUTNAM
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO173001
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO173001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T05-173-01
  • Transect Stop Number - 8
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0517301
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25967
  • 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: 39.4415833
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5943611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T54N
  • Range: R6W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 2,270 feet West and 673 feet North from the South East corner
  • Location Description: K hwy off 19 just north of the junction restaurant
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO173—Ralls
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO608—Marion and Ralls Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39091-D5—Perry NE, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Paine
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - PUTNAM
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39091d5nw
  • 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 gully
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

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    36 -

    - 1 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    0—36

    20—36

    36—203

    36—

    —36—

    —16—

    —167—

    —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

    1

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    225.6

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    35

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006250; observed in push tube
    E—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 70 percent faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006251; observed in push tube
    Btg1—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006252; observed in push tube
    Btg2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006253; observed in push tube
    Btg3—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006254; observed in push tube
    Btg4—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006255; observed in push tube
    2Btg5—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006256; observed in push tube
    2Btg6—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube