IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SWISS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO139054
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO139054
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO139054
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713954
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25521
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.8620833
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4994444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R5W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 2,480 feet West and 144 feet South from the North East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO139—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO603—Montgomery and Warren Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-G4—Pinnacle Lake, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Knelle, John Horton, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 54
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SWISS
  • PSC - 17 to 67 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GOSS
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Holocene Stage silty slope alluvium derived from mixed over Cheltenham Formation clayey residuum weathered from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Cheltenham Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 7/24/2007
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUVE

    QUAL

    THUJA

    RHAR4

    Quercus velutina

    Quercus alba

    Thuja

    Rhus aromatica

    black oak

    white oak

    arborvitae

    fragrant sumac

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—7

    7—158

    50—

    —7—

    —151—

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    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

    10

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    251.8

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    190

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    A—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); 50 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002972; observed in push tube
    Bt1—17 to 29 centimeters (6.7 to 11.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bt2—29 to 50 centimeters (11.4 to 19.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Bt3—50 to 100 centimeters (19.7 to 39.4 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—100 to 131 centimeters (39.4 to 51.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) broken face cobbly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 12 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), 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; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—131 to 158 centimeters (51.6 to 62.2 inches); 50 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face and 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face cobbly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments.; observed in push tube