IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SWISS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO139058
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO139058
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO139058
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713958
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25523
  • 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: 38.8626944
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5116389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R5W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 541 feet West and 85 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-G5—Americus, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Horton, Keith Knelle, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 58
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SWISS
  • PSC - 39 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GOSS
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/2007
  • 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 over Cheltenham Formation clayey residuum weathered from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Cheltenham Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/26/2007 (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

    QUAL

    QUVE

    THUJA

    Quercus alba

    Quercus velutina

    Thuja

    white oak

    black oak

    arborvitae

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—39

    39—200

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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

    15

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    244.1

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    90

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 20 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002984; observed in pit, small
    E—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002985; observed in pit, small
    EB—20 to 39 centimeters (7.9 to 15.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; 50 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002986; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—39 to 52 centimeters (15.4 to 20.5 inches); 60 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) broken face and 40 percent weak red (2.5YR 4/2) broken face clay; moderate very fine angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 70 percent distinct weak red (2.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002987; observed in pit, small
    3Bt2—52 to 127 centimeters (20.5 to 50.0 inches); 55 percent dark bluish gray (5PB 4/1) broken face and 40 percent white (10YR 8/1) broken face and 5 percent dark bluish gray (5PB 3/1) broken face silty clay; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 70 percent faint dark bluish gray (5PB 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3Bt3—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); 90 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face and 10 percent dark bluish gray (5PB 4/1) broken face silty clay; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 12 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate coats and 35 percent distinct weak red (2.5YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark reddish gray (2.5YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark reddish gray (2.5YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3Bt4—165 to 200 centimeters (65.0 to 78.7 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) broken face silty clay; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 35 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), 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 yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments.; observed in pit, small