IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): KESWICK
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO139067
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO139067
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713967
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25633
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 38.8726944
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5325833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R6W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 1,617 feet West and 2,125 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, Dennis Meinert, Keith Knelle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Chromic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 67
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - KESWICK
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Chromic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/2007
  • 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: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091g5ne
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    0—20

    20—200

    —20—

    —180—
    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

    7

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    251.8

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    140

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003768; observed in pit, small
    Bt—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, silt coats 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 reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003769; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 50 percent reddish brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003770; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—58 to 100 centimeters (22.8 to 39.4 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films 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 olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003771; observed in pit, small
    2Btg3—100 to 132 centimeters (39.4 to 52.0 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) broken face clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003772; observed in pit, small
    2Btg4—132 to 165 centimeters (52.0 to 65.0 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) broken face clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct gray (5Y 6/1), moist, slickensides (geogenic) and 12 percent faint olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent prominent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, pressure faces; 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 nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003773; observed in pit, small
    2Btg5—165 to 185 centimeters (65.0 to 72.8 inches); 50 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face and 50 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) broken face clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint 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; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003774; observed in pit, small
    2Btg6—185 to 200 centimeters (72.8 to 78.7 inches); 70 percent gray (5Y 6/1) broken face and 30 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face clay loam; massive; very firm; 0.5 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 yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU003775; observed in pit, small