IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): COTTON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO135011
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO135011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713511
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25371
  • 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: 38.6526944
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5358889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T45N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 2,254 feet East and 1,415 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 Fragiaquic 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 #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - COTTON
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Fragiaquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 10 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/2007
  • 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: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Jefferson City Dolomite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/12/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38092f5se
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragic soil properties

    reduced matrix

    0—10

    10—112

    36—81

    81—124

    —10—

    —102—

    —45—

    —43—

    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

    5

    254.2

    326

    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); 80 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001812; observed in push tube
    Bt1—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001813; observed in push tube
    2Btx1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak very coarse platy structure; firm; 35 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 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 grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001814; observed in push tube
    2Btx2—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001815; observed in push tube
    2Btg1—81 to 112 centimeters (31.9 to 44.1 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001816; observed in push tube
    3Btg2—112 to 124 centimeters (44.1 to 48.8 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 35 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 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; 25 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU001817; observed in push tube