IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SWISS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO139056
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO139056
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO139056
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713956
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25522
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.8555278
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5244444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R5W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 929 feet East and 2,458 feet North from the South West 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-G5—Americus, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Knelle, John Horton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 56
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SWISS
  • PSC - 9 to 59 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • 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 gravelly 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: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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: 38091g5ne
  • 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

    QUST

    RHUS

    Quercus velutina

    Quercus stellata

    Rhus

    black oak

    post oak

    sumac

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—9

    9—195

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    —186—
    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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    229.5

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    55

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002978; observed in cut
    Bt1—9 to 45 centimeters (3.5 to 17.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face extremely 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 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 55 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    Bt2—45 to 68 centimeters (17.7 to 26.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face extremely 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; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 250-?-600 millimeter chert fragments and 55 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    Bt3—68 to 110 centimeters (26.8 to 43.3 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) broken face extremely gravelly clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), 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; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    2Bt4—110 to 155 centimeters (43.3 to 61.0 inches); 60 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/1) broken face and 40 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face extremely gravelly clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 65 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    2Bt5—155 to 195 centimeters (61.0 to 76.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) broken face clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6), 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; fragments.; observed in cut