IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weller
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1994MO019009
  • User Pedon ID: 1994MO019009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9401909
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34225
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 38.8415126
  • Std. Longitude: -92.3339864
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Range: R13W
  • Section: 24
  • Location Description: 1740 feet east and 700 feet south of NW cor., sec. 24, T47N., R13W.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO019—Boone
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Melvin Simmons and Caryl Radatz
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Weller
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/25/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    33—0

    33—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

    6

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    914

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU049514
    BE—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU049515
    Bt—33 to 74 centimeters (13.0 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; 10 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) medium faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains and 35 percent faint clay films; 10 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU049516
    Btg1—74 to 119 centimeters (29.1 to 46.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent greenish gray (5G 5/1) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains and 35 percent distinct clay films; 10 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU049517
    Btg2—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains in root channels and/or pores and 15 percent faint clay films; 10 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU049518
    Btg3—152 to 180 centimeters (59.8 to 70.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films; 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented iron-manganese concretions throughout and 25 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU049519
    Btg4—180 to 203 centimeters (70.9 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint clay films and 35 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains; 10 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU049520