IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weller
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004MO183051
  • User Pedon ID: 2004MO183051
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0418351
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30440
  • 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: 38.6264778
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9134167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T45N
  • Range: R1E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 1450 feet west and 2480 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: New Melle; Center of a secondary ridge below a remnant high that veers NW. Femme Osage Creek 1 1/2 mile north. Pedon M0418350 is North 1/4 mile. A change in drainage/erosioned surfaces. W-E creek valleys. 4 1/2 miles to Missouri River Valley
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO183—St. Charles
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO183—St. Charles County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38090-F8—New Melle, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dave Dowdy, LeAnn Bullard, Greg Caldwell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fragic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 51
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Weller
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fragic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 10 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/25/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090f8se
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    231 - 231

    - 1 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragic soil properties

    lithic contact

    0—10

    10—231

    79—140

    231—231

    —10—

    —221—

    —61—

    —1—
    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

    11

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    266.7

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    64

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots; 7.0 fine tubular and 3.0 coarse tubular pores; 1 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, silt coats; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026167. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 886442; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 886442
    Bt1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3) interior and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 30 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats and 30 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026168. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 886443; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 886444; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 886443; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 886444
    Bt2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 20 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 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 # MU026169. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 886445; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 886445
    Bt3—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 fine roots; 0.9 fine pores; 20 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026170. patchy - phpvsfiid 886446; patchy - phpvsfiid 886446
    2Btx1—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) interior silt loam; weak medium platy structure; very firm; 0.9 fine roots; 0.9 fine pores; 30 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 886447; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 886447
    2Btx2—104 to 140 centimeters (40.9 to 55.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium platy structure; very firm; 20 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 886448; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 886448
    2Bt1—140 to 163 centimeters (55.1 to 64.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    2Bt2—163 to 203 centimeters (64.2 to 79.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    3Bt3—203 to 231 centimeters (79.9 to 90.9 inches); fragments.
    4R—231 to 231 centimeters (90.9 to 90.9 inches); fragments.