IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fine-Silty
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO211053
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO211053
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0721153
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25507
  • 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: 40.3042793
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8953857
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T64N
  • Range: R18W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 469 feet West and 2,130 feet North from the South West corner
  • Map Unit: 30068—Gorin silt loam, 5 to 9 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO211—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 109—Iowa and Missouri Heavy Till Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO211—Sullivan County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40092-C8—Green City, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Dowdy, Amber Marshaus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, smectitic, superactive, mesic Typic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 53
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fine-Silty
  • PSC - 28 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GORIN
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess derived from mixed over coarse-loamy till derived from mixed
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pre-illinoian Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/20/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 40092c8se
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

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    64 - 64

    - 1 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    abrupt textural change

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—28

    28—185

    28—185

    64—64

    64—64

    135—135

    —28—

    —157—

    —157—

    —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

    4

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    310.3

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    35

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; 8 percent sand; 75 percent silt; 17 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 0.5 medium dendritic tubular and 10.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002891; observed in push tube
    A—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; 5 percent sand; 76 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 12 percent prominent organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002892; observed in push tube
    Btg—28 to 64 centimeters (11.0 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout and 1 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002893; observed in push tube
    Bt—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silty clay; 1 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 48 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on bottom faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries throughout and 12 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002894; observed in push tube
    Btg—94 to 135 centimeters (37.0 to 53.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on bottom faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout and 17 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002895; observed in push tube
    2BAb—135 to 185 centimeters (53.1 to 72.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; 27 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 12 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout and 12 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # MU002896; observed in push tube