IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SWISS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO027079
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO027079
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO02779
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 16D-2
  • Transect Stop Number - 9
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0602779
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26134
  • 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: 38.7498056
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7983889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 229 feet West and 305 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: Wyn Kelley, Amber Marshaus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, superactive, 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 #: 79
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SWISS
  • PSC - 43 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SWISS
  • Classificaton Date - 7/5/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy colluvium derived from mixed over clayey residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • 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
  • Geology: Cheltenham Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/5/2006 (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

    ACER

    Quercus

    Carya

    Acer

    oak

    hybrid hickory

    maple

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    43—99

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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

    21

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    229.5

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    75

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; 10.0 very fine pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007353; observed in pit, small
    BE—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU007354; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 12 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films and 35 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films; 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 red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU007355; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 12 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, 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 chert fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MU007356; observed in pit, small
    CB—99 to 160 centimeters (39.0 to 63.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face very channery silt loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 40 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MU007357; observed in pit, small
    Cr—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); reddish gray (10R 5/1) broken face silt loam; massive; very firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellow (10YR 8/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU007358; observed in pit, small