IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PUTNAM
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO027052
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO027052
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0702752
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30283
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.9104167
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6996111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T48N
  • Range: R7W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 1,059 feet West and 275 feet South from the North East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO027—Callaway
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO027—Callaway County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-H6—Williamsburg, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Chalfant, LeAnn Bullard, Amber Marshaus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 52
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - PUTNAM
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/2006
  • 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

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed over clayey till derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: divide
  • Anthropogenic Feature: cut (road, railroad, etc.)
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered limestone, unspecified at 912cm 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: 10/19/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091h6sw
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    912 - 912

    - 1 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    18—274

    912—912

    —18—

    —256—

    —1—
    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

    2

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    258.8

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg1—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 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 yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent fine prominent cylindrical noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 5/1), moist, with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg2—46 to 91 centimeters (18.1 to 35.8 inches); pale red (2.5YR 6/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg3—91 to 168 centimeters (35.8 to 66.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium platy structure; firm; 12 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 20 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    3Btgb1—168 to 213 centimeters (66.1 to 83.9 inches); gray (7.5YR 5/1) broken face silty clay; 57 percent silt; 43 percent clay; weak medium platy, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 12 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 70 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    3Btgb2—213 to 274 centimeters (83.9 to 107.9 inches); dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) broken face silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 12 percent distinct pressure faces on vertical faces of peds and 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    3Bgb—274 to 305 centimeters (107.9 to 120.1 inches); gray (7.5YR 5/1) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium platy structure; firm; 35 percent prominent dark gray (7.5YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent prominent light gray (7.5YR 7/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    3BCb—305 to 472 centimeters (120.1 to 185.8 inches); reddish gray (2.5YR 6/1) broken face silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 12 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent distinct pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    3Cgb1—472 to 610 centimeters (185.8 to 240.2 inches); pale red (2.5YR 6/2) broken face silty clay; massive; very firm; 12 percent distinct pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 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 brown (10YR 5/6), 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; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    3Cgb2—610 to 732 centimeters (240.2 to 288.2 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) broken face silty clay; massive; very firm; 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 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 subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    3Cdb—732 to 777 centimeters (288.2 to 305.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; massive; very firm; 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 gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 4 percent fine prominent cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    3Ckdb—777 to 914 centimeters (305.9 to 359.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; massive; very firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1), 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; 7 percent fine prominent cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube