IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LETA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO087011
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO087011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0808711
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25680
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 39.9306944
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1958889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO087—Holt
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO087—Holt County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-H2—Oregon, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Craig Chatfield, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey over loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Mollic Endoaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - LETA
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey over loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Mollic Endoaquents
  • PSC - 20 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/2/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for brief periods
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/2/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39095h2
  • Surface Water Kind: flooded
  • Surface Water Depth: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • 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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    79 -

    - 1 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    redox concentrations

    abrupt textural change

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—20

    0—203

    79—

    109—145

    —20—

    —203—

    —1—

    —36—
    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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    256

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silty clay; 40 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; 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 dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004113; observed in push tube
    BC—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 20 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate fine platy, and strong fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004114; observed in push tube
    C1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); 50 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face and 25 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 25 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay; 47 percent clay; massive; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004115; observed in push tube
    C2—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face very fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; massive; friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004116; observed in push tube
    C3—79 to 109 centimeters (31.1 to 42.9 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face very fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; massive; friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004117; observed in push tube
    C4—109 to 145 centimeters (42.9 to 57.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face loam; massive; friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004118; observed in push tube
    C5—145 to 193 centimeters (57.1 to 76.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face loamy fine sand; massive; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004119; observed in push tube
    C6—193 to 203 centimeters (76.0 to 79.9 inches); 80 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face and 20 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face loam; massive; friable; 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; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU004120; observed in push tube