IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): KESWICK
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO139063
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO139063
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713963
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25632
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 38.8739167
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5136389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R5W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1,167 feet West and 1,519 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, active, mesic Aquertic Chromic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 63
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - KESWICK
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, active, 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: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

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    23 -

    - 1 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    aquic conditions

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—23

    23—188

    23—

    49—

    101—

    —23—

    —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

    5

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    256

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    133

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    Ap—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 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 3/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003760; observed in push tube
    E—14 to 23 centimeters (5.5 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats 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 gray (10YR 5/1), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003761; observed in push tube
    Bt1—23 to 49 centimeters (9.1 to 19.3 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003762; observed in push tube
    Bt2—49 to 76 centimeters (19.3 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003763; observed in push tube
    Bt3—76 to 101 centimeters (29.9 to 39.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume subangular strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003764; observed in push tube
    2Btg—101 to 162 centimeters (39.8 to 63.8 inches); gray (N 6/0) broken face clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct gray (N 6/0), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds and 70 percent prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (10R 3/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume subangular strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003765; observed in push tube
    2Btg2—162 to 188 centimeters (63.8 to 74.0 inches); gray (N 6/0) broken face clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds and 12 percent distinct dusky red (10R 3/2), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume subangular strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003766; observed in push tube
    2BC—188 to 200 centimeters (74.0 to 78.7 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face and 40 percent gray (5Y 6/1) broken face clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), 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; 1 percent by volume subangular strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments. Lab sample # MU003767; observed in push tube