IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): USEFUL
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO027061
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO027061
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO02761
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 11D-2
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0602761
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25515
  • 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: 38.7271111
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7860000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 1,755 feet West and 2,530 feet North from the South East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO027—Callaway
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO027—Callaway County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-F7—Mokane East, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LeAnn Bullard, Larry Slechta, Wyn Kelley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 61
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - USEFUL
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GOSS
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey colluvium derived from mixed over clayey residuum weathered from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent strong weathered dolomite (dolostone) at 119cm with <10 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: Jefferson City Dolomite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/7/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091f7ne
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUERC

    CARYA

    ACER

    Quercus

    Carya

    Acer

    oak

    hybrid hickory

    maple

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    119 -

    - 1 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—107

    119—

    —15—

    —92—

    —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

    18.6

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    210

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    280

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine and 10.0 fine pores; 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine and 10.0 fine pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU002946; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 53 centimeters (5.9 to 20.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) crushed clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; 0.5 fine pores; 25 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU002947; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) crushed sandy clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 50 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU002948; observed in pit, small
    3Bt3—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 25 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), 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; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU002949; observed in pit, small
    3Cr—107 to 119 centimeters (42.1 to 46.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) crushed silt loam; massive; firm; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MU002950; observed in pit, small
    3R—119 to 122 centimeters (46.9 to 48.0 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small