IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loring
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1944MO031001
  • User Pedon ID: S1944MO031001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1944MO031001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4417
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40572
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 37.2814598
  • Std. Longitude: -89.5975800
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: NE corner of Survey 2284, immediately west of the junction of the Ranney and old Gordonville-Benton roads. Sample taken in a woodlot, the only forested area near and west of the road junction, 4 1/2 miles west, slightly southwest, of the center of the town of Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO031—Cape Girardeau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO609—Cape Girardeau, Mississippi and Scott Counties, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. J. Muckenhirn, H. H. Krusekopf, L. T. Alexander, and A. M. O'Neal.
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loring
  • Classificaton Date - 10/13/1944
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/1944 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACER

    JUGLA

    MORUS

    ULMUS

    Acer

    Juglans

    Morus

    Ulmus

    maple

    walnut

    mulberry

    elm

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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

    6

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    D—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; medium and coarse granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33742. aggregates crush easily without color change. Worm casts and roots abundant.
    D—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33743. aggregates moderately vesicular, penetrated by roots, crushing easily to pale brown. Worm casts and roots abundant.
    D—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; weak medium and coarse granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33744. aggregates moderately vesicular, penetrated by roots, crushing easily to light yellowish brown. Worm casts and roots abundant.
    D—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33745. Similar to 5-7 inch layer but aggregates are more vesicular and more resistant to crushing and have more abundant worm casts.
    D—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33746. aggregates moderately vesicular, crushing fairly easily to light yellowish brown. Worm casts and roots abundant.
    D—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33747. aggregates slightly vesicular, crushing easily to light to moderate yellowish brown. Worm casts and roots abundant.
    D—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; medium angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33748. aggregates slightly vesicular, very lightly sprinkled with gray, crushing with slight resistance to light to strong yellowish brown. Worm casts fairly abundant, roots abundant.
    D—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; medium angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33749. aggregates slightly vesicular, crushing with slight to moderate resistance to moderate or light yellowish brown. Roots fairly abundant.
    D—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; medium angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33750. aggregates slightly vesicular, generally coated with dark yellowish brown to moderate brown sprinkled with gray, and crushing with moderate resistance to light to moderate yellowish brown. Roots fairly abundant, present only in crevices.
    D—79 to 91 centimeters (31.1 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; medium and coarse angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33751. aggregates slightly vesicular, lightly coated with gray, surface color more brown than the moderate yellowish brown of the chart, interiors approaching light yellowish brown. Aggregates crush with moderate resistance to light yellowish brown.
    D—91 to 97 centimeters (35.8 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam, silty clay loam; fine and medium angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33752. aggregates slightly vesicular, well-coated with gray, and crushing with slight to moderate resistance to light yellowish brown. Because of the smaller size of the aggregates, the gray coating gives this layer a whitish appearance to the yellowish brown of the 31-36 inch layer.
    D—97 to 102 centimeters (38.2 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; medium and coarse angular blocky structure; 0.5 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33753. aggregates slightly vesicular, moderately to heavily gray-coated, crushing with moderate resistance to moderate yellowish brown. Coatings of moderate brown irregularly distributed on aggregates and penetrating the aggregates in short tongues. This layer, because of the somewhat smaller aggregates, appears whiter than the 40-45 inch layer.
    D—102 to 114 centimeters (40.2 to 44.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; coarse angular blocky structure; 0.5 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33754. aggregates very slightly vesicular, well-coated with gray and irregularly coated and penetrated by dark yellowish brown to moderate brown clayey material. Occasional dark orange and very pale brown mottlings and dark specks.
    D—114 to 127 centimeters (44.9 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; coarse angular blocky structure; in cracks and 0.5 roots between peds; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33755. aggregates very slightly vesicular, coated with gray and dark yellowish brown, and crushing with strong resistance to light to moderate yellowish brown.
    D—127 to 140 centimeters (50.0 to 55.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; massive, and coarse angular blocky; 0.5 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33756. aggregates slightly vesicular, generally coated with gray, and generally covered and penetrated by moderate brown clayey material. Occasional mottlings of dark orange.
    D—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; coarse angular blocky, and massive; 0.5 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33757. aggregates very slightly vesicular, with pronounced gray and irregular moderate brown coatings as well as moderate brown and dark brown mottlings. Crush with moderate resistance to moderate yellowish brown.
    D—152 to 165 centimeters (59.8 to 65.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; coarse angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33758. aggregates slightly vesicular, moderately to heavily gray-coated, specked with dark brown, and crushing with strong resistance to moderate to strong yellowish brown.
    D—279 to 305 centimeters (109.8 to 120.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 40A33759. Noncalcareous loess; depth of loess not known.