IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Levasy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2009MO195006
  • User Pedon ID: 2009MO195006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0919506
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26337
  • 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: 39.2553611
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4227778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO195—Saline
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO195—Saline County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39093-C4—Carrollton East, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kim Worth
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Cumulic Vertic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Levasy
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Waldron
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium derived from mixed over loamy alluvium derived from mixed over sandy alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in may
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/24/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39093c4
  • Surface Water Kind: flooded
  • Surface Water Depth: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other barren
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    0—104

    23—160

    23—160

    —104—

    —137—

    —137—
    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

    0.2

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    199.9

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    258

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU008842; observed in push tube
    Bw—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); 90 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 10 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silty clay; 46 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU008843; observed in push tube
    C1—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); 70 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silty clay; 43 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and structureless massive; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU008844; observed in push tube
    2Cg1—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); 50 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face and 50 percent very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) broken face silt loam; 23 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and structureless massive; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube
    2Cg2—104 to 160 centimeters (40.9 to 63.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky, and structureless 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 strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube
    3Cg3—160 to 183 centimeters (63.0 to 72.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face fine sand; 2 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube