IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SARPY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO089057
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO089057
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0808957
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25592
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 38.9875000
  • Std. Longitude: -92.7571111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO089—Howard
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO089—Howard County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-H7—Billingsville, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Caldwell, LeAnn Bullard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 57
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SARPY
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - HODGE
  • Classificaton Date - 2/5/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy alluvium derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood-plain step
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for long periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/5/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38092h7
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—23

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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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    181.4

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dry; coarse sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003480; observed in push tube
    C1—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face coarse sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003481; observed in push tube
    C2—53 to 122 centimeters (20.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face coarse sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003482; observed in push tube
    C3—122 to 155 centimeters (48.0 to 61.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face loamy fine sand; single grain; loose; 10.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003485; observed in push tube
    2C4—155 to 178 centimeters (61.0 to 70.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face stratified very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 0.5 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003486; observed in push tube
    2C5—178 to 178 centimeters (70.1 to 70.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face sand; single grain; loose; 10.0 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube