IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moko
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO057084M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO057084
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9105784
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 37.3723889
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8590361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T30N
  • Range: R27W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet S and 700 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 50 feet south and 700 feet east of the northwest corner of section 1, T. 30 N., R. 27 W.
  • Map Unit: 70043—Sonsac-Moko-Rock outcrop complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. D. Chorice and Charles Harwood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Moko
  • PSC - 0 to 28 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 - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/24/1992
  • 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: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/24/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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—28

    28—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

    4

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    305

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    270

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015514
    A2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015515
    A3—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 10 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015516
    R—28 centimeters (11.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.