IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarinda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO129003
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO129003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0812903
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26825
  • 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: 40.4783325
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4588852
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 30047—Clarinda silty clay loam, 5 to 9 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO129—Mercer
  • MLRA: 109—Iowa and Missouri Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO129—Mercer County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ms
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarinda
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/8/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarinda
  • Classificaton Date - 11/20/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: noncalcareous loess over till
  • Landscape: Loess covered hillslopes hills
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/20/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    redox concentrations

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—41

    18—200

    41—200

    41—200

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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

    5

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 33 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine irregular and 7.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012205; observed in push tube
    Btg1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 36 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine irregular and 7.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012206; observed in push tube
    2Btg2—41 to 57 centimeters (16.1 to 22.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face clay; 26 percent sand; 41 percent clay; firm; 2 percent fine noncoherent cemented dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay depletions and 10 percent fine noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries; fragments. Lab sample # MU012207; observed in push tube
    2Btg3—57 to 83 centimeters (22.4 to 32.7 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face clay; 26 percent sand; 42 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine irregular and 7.0 fine irregular pores; 20 percent faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012208; observed in push tube
    2Btg4—83 to 110 centimeters (32.7 to 43.3 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face clay; 26 percent sand; 42 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU012209; observed in push tube
    2Btg5—110 to 132 centimeters (43.3 to 52.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face clay; 26 percent sand; 42 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 20 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU012210; observed in push tube
    2Btg6—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) broken face clay; 30 percent sand; 45 percent clay; firm; 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 5 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # MU012211; observed in push tube
    3Btg7—152 to 172 centimeters (59.8 to 67.7 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face clay; 25 percent sand; 41 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU012212; observed in push tube
    3Btg8—172 to 200 centimeters (67.7 to 78.7 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face clay loam; 30 percent sand; 35 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-3-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU012213; observed in push tube