IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LANDES
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004MO021001
  • User Pedon ID: 2004MO021001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0402101
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25348
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 39.6636111
  • Std. Longitude: -94.7783056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T56N
  • Range: R35W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 2,169 feet East and 1,067 feet North from the South West corner
  • Location Description: Pigeon Hill
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO021—Buchanan
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO021—Buchanan County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39094-F7—Saint Joseph South, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Craig Chatfield, Timothy Knoernschild
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Fluvaquentic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - LANDES
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - COLO
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for extremely brief periods begining in mar
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39094f7se
  • Surface Water Kind: flooded
  • Surface Water Depth: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: landslip erosion highly deformed
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    13—56

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    —43—
    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

    1

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    261.2

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    0

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed and 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001650; observed in push tube
    Bw1—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots between peds; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent prominent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001651; observed in push tube
    Bw2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); 50 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face and 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 3 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001652; observed in push tube
    C1—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); 25 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 25 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face and 25 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 25 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face loam; massive; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented 10YR 2.5/2 (10YR 2.5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001653; observed in push tube
    C2—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); 33 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 33 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face and 33 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face fine sandy loam; massive; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented 10YR 2.5/1 (10YR 2.5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001654; observed in push tube
    C3—112 to 170 centimeters (44.1 to 66.9 inches); 33 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 33 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 33 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face sandy loam; massive; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented 10YR 2.5/1 (10YR 2.5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU001655; observed in push tube
    C4—170 to 203 centimeters (66.9 to 79.9 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 50 percent gray (10YR 5/1) broken face silt loam; massive; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented 10YR 2.5/2 (10YR 2.5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # MU001656; observed in push tube