IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MARION
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO139062
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO139062
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713962
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25747
  • 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: 38.8736944
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5121944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R5W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 757 feet West and 1,591 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: Keith Knelle, John Horton, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, superactive, mesic Aquertic Chromic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 62
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MARION
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, superactive, mesic Aquertic Chromic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • 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: summit
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/31/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091g5ne
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—14

    23—190

    38—190

    38—

    190—

    —14—

    —167—

    —152—

    —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

    2

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    —

    254.8

    —

    204

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004612; observed in push tube
    BE—14 to 23 centimeters (5.5 to 9.1 inches); 50 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face and 50 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004613; observed in push tube
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004614; observed in push tube
    2Btg1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) broken face silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004615; observed in push tube
    2Btg2—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004616; observed in push tube
    2Btg3—76 to 137 centimeters (29.9 to 53.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004617; observed in push tube
    2Btg4—137 to 190 centimeters (53.9 to 74.8 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) broken face clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004618; observed in push tube
    3BCg—190 to 208 centimeters (74.8 to 81.9 inches); greenish gray (10Y 6/1) broken face clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent very dark gray (5YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and 35 percent prominent gray (2.5Y 5/1), 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # MU004619; observed in push tube