IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CLAFORK
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO135001
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO135001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713501
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25322
  • 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: 38.6692222
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5938889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T45N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1,395 feet East and 1,569 feet North from the South West corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO135—Moniteau
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO135—Moniteau County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-F5—California North, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Caldwell, Craig Chatfield, Aaron Woods
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - CLAFORK
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 33 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Jefferson City Dolomite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38092f5sw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    episaturation

    aquic conditions

    fragic soil properties

    0—15

    33—178

    33—178

    33—178

    51—178

    79—178

    —15—

    —145—

    —145—

    —145—

    —127—

    —99—
    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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    —

    265.8

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    210

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, silt coats; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001414; observed in push tube
    E—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 70 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, organic stains; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001415; observed in push tube
    Bt1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; 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. Lab sample # MU001416; observed in push tube
    Btg1—51 to 79 centimeters (20.1 to 31.1 inches); 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 45 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001417; observed in push tube
    2Btxg1—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001418; observed in push tube
    2Btxg2—99 to 135 centimeters (39.0 to 53.1 inches); 80 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001419; observed in push tube
    2Btxg3—135 to 178 centimeters (53.1 to 70.1 inches); 80 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), 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; 15 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU001420; observed in push tube