IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): HATTON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO139068
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO139068
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO139068
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713968
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25549
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 38.8866389
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5395556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T48N
  • Range: R6W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1,490 feet East and 2,457 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-H5—Montgomery City, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Horton, Dennis Meinert, Keith Knelle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic 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 #: 68
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - HATTON
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 21 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • 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: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • 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: 38091h5se
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FESTU

    ANGE

    Festuca

    Andropogon gerardii

    fescue

    big bluestem

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

    argillic horizon

    21—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

    4

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    245.1

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    270

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    A—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003166; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—21 to 49 centimeters (8.3 to 19.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 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 prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003167; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—49 to 74 centimeters (19.3 to 29.1 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003168; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—74 to 112 centimeters (29.1 to 44.1 inches); 40 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face and 60 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; weak 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 light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), 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 strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003169; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—112 to 135 centimeters (44.1 to 53.1 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats 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 reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003170; observed in pit, small
    Bt5—135 to 163 centimeters (53.1 to 64.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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 strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003171; observed in pit, small
    2Bt6—163 to 200 centimeters (64.2 to 78.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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 strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU003172; observed in pit, small