IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SAMPSEL
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO127006
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO127006
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T06-127-05
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0612706
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26017
  • Print Date: 4/22/2025

    • 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: 39.8261667
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5076111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T58N
  • Range: R5W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 43 feet East and 1,774 feet South from the North West corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO127—Marion
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO608—Marion and Ralls Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39091-G5—Palmyra, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Paine
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SAMPSEL
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiaquolls
  • PSC - 33 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39091g5ne
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—81

    33—203

    —81—

    —170—
    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

    6

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    150.9

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    240

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) rubbed silty clay loam; strong fine granular structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006598; observed in push tube
    A—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006599; observed in push tube
    Btg1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.9 very fine irregular pores; 25 percent faint very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006600; observed in push tube
    Btg2—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); 70 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior and 30 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.9 very fine irregular pores; 25 percent faint very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006601; observed in push tube
    Btg3—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.9 very fine irregular pores; 25 percent faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006602; observed in push tube
    Btg4—114 to 142 centimeters (44.9 to 55.9 inches); 60 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and 40 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.9 very fine roots throughout; 0.9 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006603; observed in push tube
    Btg5—142 to 165 centimeters (55.9 to 65.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 25 percent faint very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006604; observed in push tube
    Btg6—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 very fine irregular pores; 25 percent faint very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 25 percent distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/1), dry, silt coats 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), 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. Lab sample # MU006605; observed in push tube