IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moko
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2001MO149027M
  • User Pedon ID: 2001MO149027M
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2001MO149027
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - oregon-058G-1
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0114927
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30632
  • User Project ID: 2021-26NCSPR013
  • Project Name: MLRA 116A - Mark Twain National Forest Update
  • Print Date: 4/10/2026
  • 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: 36.7847861
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5079500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T24N
  • Range: R5W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 66 feet E and 623 feet S of the NW corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO149—Oregon
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO611—Oregon County, Missouri, Western & Southern Parts
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36091-G5—Thomasville, Missouri
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sid Vander veen, Dan Childress, Leon Thompson, Scott Paine
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 27
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Moko
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/16/2024
  • Classifier - Campbell and Meinert
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - thirteenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • 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 - 9/26/2001
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated moderate weathered dolomite (dolostone) at 28cm with 10 to <45 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: Roubidoux Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 36091g5se
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PIEC2

    THUJA

    Pinus echinata

    Thuja

    shortleaf pine

    arborvitae

    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    28 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—28

    28—

    —28—

    —-

    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

    55

    197.8

    185

    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) rubbed gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 7.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU022758; observed in pit, small
    A2—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU022759; observed in pit, small
    R—28 centimeters (11.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.