IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Knobby
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO135022M
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO135022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713522
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 38.4892778
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5303333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T43N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 27 feet E and 729 feet N of the SE corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO135—Moniteau
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO135—Moniteau County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-D5—Olean, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Caldwell, Craig Chatfield, Aaron Woods
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Knobby
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/21/2014
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moko
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/24/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy slope alluvium and/or residuum weathered from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered dolomite (dolostone) at 23cm with 45 to <100 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: Jefferson City Dolomite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/24/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38092d5ne
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    23 -

    - 1 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—23

    23—

    —23—

    —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

    11

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    278.3

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    349

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent by volume nonflat noncoherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005717; observed in pit, small
    R—23 centimeters (9.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small