IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SWISS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO027073
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO027073
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO02773
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 16D-1
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0602773
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26132
  • 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: 38.7464167
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7692500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 2,490 feet West and 1,266 feet South from the North 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: Larry Slechta, Amber Marshaus, LeAnn Bullard, David Dowdy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 73
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SWISS
  • PSC - 33 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SWISS
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from mixed over silty and clayey residuum weathered from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Cheltenham Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/2006 (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

    ACER

    ULMUS

    QUERC

    Acer

    Ulmus

    Quercus

    maple

    elm

    oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    33—81

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    —48—
    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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    244.1

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    210

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007338; observed in pit, small
    BE—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint 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; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007339; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 medium roots between peds and 10.0 fine roots between peds and 0.5 coarse roots between peds; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007340; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent 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 very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU007341; observed in pit, small
    2Cd—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face silty clay loam; massive; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots between peds and 3.0 fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU007342; observed in pit, small
    2BC—114 to 140 centimeters (44.9 to 55.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots between peds and 3.0 fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU007343; observed in pit, small
    2C/B—140 to 168 centimeters (55.1 to 66.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and massive, and weak coarse prismatic; very firm; 0.5 medium roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU007344; observed in pit, small
    Cr—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face silt loam; massive; firm; 3.0 very fine roots in cracks and 3.0 fine roots in cracks; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 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 gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU007345; observed in pit, small