IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SWISS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO027074
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO027074
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO02774
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 16E-1
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0602774
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26133
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 38.7449722
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7710833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 2,300 feet East and 1,860 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-F7—Mokane East, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wyn Kelley, LeAnn Bullard, Larry Slechta
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, 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 #: 74
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SWISS
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/2006
  • 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

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey colluvium derived from mixed over silty and clayey residuum weathered from calcareous shale
  • 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: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Cheltenham Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/22/2006 (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

    CARYA

    QUERC

    Acer

    Ulmus

    Carya

    Quercus

    maple

    elm

    hybrid hickory

    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—15

    15—76

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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

    19

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    244.1

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    59

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007346; observed in pit, small
    BE—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007347; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 51 centimeters (5.9 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots between peds and 10.0 fine roots between peds and 3.0 coarse roots between peds; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007348; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots between peds and 10.0 fine roots between peds; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007349; observed in pit, small
    2BC1—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); 60 percent light greenish gray (10Y 7/1) broken face and 35 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) broken face and 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots between peds and 3.0 fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct white (5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007350; observed in pit, small
    2BC2—114 to 135 centimeters (44.9 to 53.1 inches); 30 percent yellow (2.5Y 7/6) broken face and 70 percent greenish gray (10Y 6/1) broken face silty clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots between peds and 3.0 fine roots between peds; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct white (5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent faint greenish gray (5GY 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007351; observed in pit, small
    2BC3—135 to 203 centimeters (53.1 to 79.9 inches); 30 percent greenish gray (10Y 6/1) broken face and 65 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 12 percent distinct greenish gray (5GY 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct white (5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU007352; observed in pit, small