IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MCGIRK
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO135027
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO135027
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713527
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25743
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.5883056
  • Std. Longitude: -92.7295556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T44N
  • Range: R16W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 355 feet East and 2,579 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-E6—Latham, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Caldwell, Craig Chatfield, Aaron Woods
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Chromic Vertic Endoaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 27
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MCGIRK
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Chromic Vertic Endoaqualfs
  • PSC - 64 to 114 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2007
  • 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 Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Jefferson City Dolomite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/8/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38092e6nw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    reduced matrix

    0—23

    23—64

    64—203

    64—99

    —23—

    —41—

    —139—

    —35—
    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

    1.7

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    240.2

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    116

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 12 percent skeletans and 35 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004579; observed in pit, small
    E1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse platy structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats; 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 # MU004580; observed in pit, small
    E2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse platy structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats and 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organic stains; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented 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; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004581; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—64 to 74 centimeters (25.2 to 29.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 12 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films and 70 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented 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. Lab sample # MU004582; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 35 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats and 70 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004583; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 12 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats and 35 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004584; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—127 to 155 centimeters (50.0 to 61.0 inches); 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 60 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face very gravelly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented 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; 40 percent by volume nonflat noncoherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004585; observed in pit, small
    2Bt5—155 to 165 centimeters (61.0 to 65.0 inches); 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 12 percent clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat noncoherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004586; observed in pit, small
    2Bt6—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face very gravelly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 12 percent clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 30 percent by volume nonflat noncoherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU004587; observed in pit, small