IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): KESWICK
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO027001
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0502701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25620
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 38.8833333
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7333333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T48N
  • Range: R7W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 659 feet West and 1,745 feet South from the South West corner
  • Location Description: Just south of main driveway, just west of the cattle guard, through the field border in the edge of the field.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO027—Callaway
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO027—Callaway County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-H6—Williamsburg, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Fred Young
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - KESWICK
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 28 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/24/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess derived from mixed over clayey till derived from mixed
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pre-illinoian Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/24/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091h6sw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—28

    28—229

    —15—

    —13—

    —201—
    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

    5

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    —

    249.9

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003673; observed in pit, small
    E—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003674; observed in pit, small
    Bt—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 12 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent faint silt coats on all faces of peds; 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 grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003675; observed in pit, small
    2Btg1—56 to 94 centimeters (22.0 to 37.0 inches); 55 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 45 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 12 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 95 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003676; observed in pit, small
    2Btg2—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); 60 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 12 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003677; observed in pit, small
    2Btss—122 to 183 centimeters (48.0 to 72.0 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 30 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 3 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) and 12 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003678; observed in pit, small
    2Bt—183 to 229 centimeters (72.0 to 90.2 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face and 20 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 3 percent prominent clay films on vertical faces of peds and 3 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores and 12 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # MU003679; observed in pit, small