IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ARMSTER
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO199006
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO199006
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T07-199-06
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0719906
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25177
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 40.5128611
  • Std. Longitude: -92.2881667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T66N
  • Range: R12W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 1,667 feet East and 2,386 feet North from the South West corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO199—Scotland
  • MLRA: 109—Iowa and Missouri Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO199—Scotland County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40092-E3—Kilwinning, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Paine
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ARMSTER
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed over clayey pedisediment derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pre-illinoian Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 40092e3se
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—203

    —18—

    —185—
    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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    247.5

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    140

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000313; observed in push tube
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000314; observed in push tube
    2Bt2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000315; observed in push tube
    2Bt3—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000316; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 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 grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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 # MU000317; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—122 to 150 centimeters (48.0 to 59.1 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000318; observed in push tube
    2Bt6—150 to 173 centimeters (59.1 to 68.1 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000319; observed in push tube
    2Btk—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very 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 yellowish red (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. Lab sample # MU000320; observed in push tube