IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MARION
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO139069
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO139069
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO139069
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713969
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25749
  • 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: 38.8698889
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4986111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R5W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 2,293 feet West and 2,701 feet North from the South 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-G4—Pinnacle Lake, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Horton, Dennis Meinert, Keith Knelle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, superactive, 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 #: 69
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MARION
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, superactive, mesic Aquertic Chromic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 26 to 76 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: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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: 38091g4nw
  • 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

    ANGE

    SOLID

    Andropogon gerardii

    Solidago

    big bluestem

    goldenrod

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

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    26 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    0—26

    10—26

    26—153

    26—

    —26—

    —16—

    —127—

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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

    1

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    257.9

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    265

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004627; observed in pit, small
    E—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, 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 dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004628; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—26 to 52 centimeters (10.2 to 20.5 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004629; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—52 to 79 centimeters (20.5 to 31.1 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004630; observed in pit, small
    2Btg3—79 to 96 centimeters (31.1 to 37.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; 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 strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), 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 # MU004631; observed in pit, small
    2Btg4—96 to 116 centimeters (37.8 to 45.7 inches); 50 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face and 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), 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 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004632; observed in pit, small
    2Btg5—116 to 153 centimeters (45.7 to 60.2 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats and 35 percent faint dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, clay films; 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 5/6), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004633; observed in pit, small
    3Cg—153 to 200 centimeters (60.2 to 78.7 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face silty clay; massive; very firm; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 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. Lab sample # MU004634; observed in pit, small