IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SWISS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO139060
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO139060
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO139060
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713960
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25631
  • 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: 38.8740000
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5386389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R6W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 2,373 feet East and 1,706 feet South from the North 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: John Horton, Keith Knelle, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal over clayey, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 60
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SWISS
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - KESWICK
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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

    QUVE

    QUAL

    Quercus velutina

    Quercus alba

    black oak

    white oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—25

    25—190

    37—

    70—

    120—

    —25—

    —165—

    —1—

    —1—

    —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

    9

    238.7

    180

    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003753; observed in cut
    E—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003754; observed in cut
    Bt1—25 to 37 centimeters (9.8 to 14.6 inches); 70 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 10 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; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003755; observed in cut
    2Bt2—37 to 70 centimeters (14.6 to 27.6 inches); 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face and 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face gravelly clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 70 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003756; observed in cut
    3Bt3—70 to 120 centimeters (27.6 to 47.2 inches); 30 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face and 40 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face and 30 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, clay films on rock fragments and 35 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    4Bt4—120 to 160 centimeters (47.2 to 63.0 inches); 70 percent weak red (2.5YR 5/2) broken face and 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 12 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in cut
    4Bt5—160 to 190 centimeters (63.0 to 74.8 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) broken face and 30 percent dark reddish gray (2.5YR 3/1) broken face and 10 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 35 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments.; observed in cut