IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MARION
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO219054
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO219054
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0521954
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30349
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 38.7641667
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3930556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R4W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1,399 feet East and 2,373 feet North from the South West corner
  • Location Description: Daniel Boone C.A.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO219—Warren
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO603—Montgomery and Warren Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-G4—Pinnacle Lake, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Chalfant, LeAnn Bullard, David Dowdy, Greg Caldwell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 54
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MARION
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 30 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/15/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pre-illinoian Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/15/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091g4se
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rural transportation
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion rill
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

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    30 -

    - 1 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    0—30

    30—127

    30—

    —30—

    —97—

    —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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    274.3

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) rubbed silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027173; observed in pit, small
    E—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 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 # MU027174; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats 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 # MU027175; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), 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 # MU027176; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—76 to 127 centimeters (29.9 to 50.0 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 6 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, skeletans 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 # MU027177; observed in pit, small
    2Bw1—127 to 208 centimeters (50.0 to 81.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, skeletans on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027178; observed in pit, small
    3Bt—208 to 267 centimeters (81.9 to 105.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct pressure faces and 20 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    4Bt1—267 to 318 centimeters (105.1 to 125.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face gravelly clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent distinct pressure faces and 30 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    4Bt2—318 to 363 centimeters (125.2 to 142.9 inches); 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face and 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face and 20 percent red (10R 4/8) broken face gravelly clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent distinct pressure faces and 35 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    4Bt3—363 to 373 centimeters (142.9 to 146.9 inches); 60 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face and 44 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/1) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 10 percent distinct pressure faces and 25 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (10R 3/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments.; observed in pit, small