IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2009MO171001
  • User Pedon ID: 2009MO171001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0917101
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30694
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 40.3964157
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3368607
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T65N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO171—Putnam
  • MLRA: 109—Iowa and Missouri Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO171—Putnam County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ms
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gara
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/8/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armstrong
  • Classificaton Date - 2/11/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: noncalcareous loess over till
  • Landscape: Loess covered hillslope on dissected till plain
  • 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: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/11/2009 (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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—20

    20—110

    20—110

    20—110

    66—110

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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

    7

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    280

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; clay loam; 21 percent sand; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine irregular and 7.0 fine irregular pores; 0 percent by volume 600-775-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 75-140-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 5-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU030545; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 50 centimeters (7.9 to 19.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face clay loam; 22 percent sand; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 very fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine irregular and 7.0 fine irregular pores; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 0 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 5-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 75-140-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 600-775-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU030546; observed in push tube
    Bt2—50 to 60 centimeters (19.7 to 23.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face clay loam; 22 percent sand; 35 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 7.0 very fine irregular and 7.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 0 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 5-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 75-140-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 600-775-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU030547; observed in push tube
    Bt3—60 to 98 centimeters (23.6 to 38.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face clay; 27 percent sand; 38 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 7.0 fine irregular pores; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay depletions with diffuse boundaries and 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries; 0 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 5-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 75-140-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 600-775-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU030548; observed in push tube
    Bt4—98 to 110 centimeters (38.6 to 43.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face clay; 32 percent sand; 36 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 7.0 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries and 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries and 5 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay depletions with diffuse boundaries; 0 percent by volume 5-20-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 75-140-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 0 percent by volume 600-775-1000 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU030549; observed in push tube