IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SWISS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO027069
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO027069
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO02769
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 16E-4
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0602769
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26131
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.7590000
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7520833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R7W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 2,153 feet East and 2,024 feet South from the North West 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-G7—Reform, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wyn Kelley, LeAnn Bullard, David Dowdy, Amber Marshaus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 69
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SWISS
  • PSC - 10 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SWISS
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2006
  • 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 over loamy 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: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: noncoherent slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 155cm with 45 to <100 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: Cheltenham Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/15/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091g7se
  • 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

    Quercus

    Carya

    oak

    hybrid hickory

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    155 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    10—132

    155—

    —10—

    —122—

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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

    20

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    231

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    195

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent organic stains; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU007331; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 10.0 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent prominent clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU007332; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent prominent clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU007333; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), 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; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU007334; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent white (10YR 8/1), moist, silt coats and 70 percent prominent clay films; 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 white (N 8/0), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU007335; observed in pit, small
    2Bt5—97 to 132 centimeters (38.2 to 52.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face gravelly loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2BC—132 to 155 centimeters (52.0 to 61.0 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) broken face very stony loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 70 percent prominent clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light greenish gray (10Y 8/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dusky red (10R 3/3), 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; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 380-?-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments.; observed in pit, small
    2R—155 to 155 centimeters (61.0 to 61.0 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small