IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MCGIRK
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990MO053063
  • User Pedon ID: 1990MO053063
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9005363
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 29215
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.9184722
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8087778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T48N
  • Range: R17W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1,624 feet East and 915 feet South from the North West corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO053—Cooper
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO053—Cooper County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-H7—Billingsville, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J L Baker, Greg Caldwell, David Skaer, Aaron Woods
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Ochraqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 63
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MCGIRK
  • PSC - 38 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MCGIRK
  • Classificaton Date - 10/12/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/12/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38092h7se
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    reduced matrix

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—28

    28—152

    38—130

    —18—

    —10—

    —124—

    —92—
    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

    4

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    200.9

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037716; observed in push tube
    E1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037717; observed in push tube
    BE—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037718; observed in push tube
    Btg1—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 12 percent distinct silt coats on all faces of peds and 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037719; observed in push tube
    Btg2—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 12 percent prominent silt coats on all faces of peds and 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037720; observed in push tube
    Btg3—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine roots; 12 percent distinct silt coats on all faces of peds and 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037721; observed in push tube
    Btg4—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 12 percent distinct silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037722; observed in push tube
    BC—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 12 percent distinct silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU037723; observed in push tube