IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moko
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO167073M
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO167073
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9016773
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 37.7841667
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3411111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T35N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet W and 2600 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 1,400 feet west and 2,600 feet south of the northeast corner of section 15, T. 35 N., R. 22 W.
  • Map Unit: 70013—Moko very gravelly silt loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Aldrich, Richard Henderson, and John Bowers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Moko
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moko
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy slope alluvium and/or residuum weathered from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 41cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—30

    30—203

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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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    299

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    220

    1041

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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; very gravelly silt loam; strong fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; 45 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015482
    A2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; extremely flaggy silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-265-380 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015483
    A3—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) extremely flaggy silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 90 percent by volume flat angular indurated 150-?-380 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU015484
    R—41 centimeters (16.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.