IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): USEFUL
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO027068
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO027068
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO02768
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10E
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0602768
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25981
  • 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: 38.7578333
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7515000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R7W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 2,327 feet East and 2,450 feet South from the North West corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO027—Callaway
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO027—Callaway County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-G6—Readsville, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LeAnn Bullard, David Dowdy, Amber Marshaus, Larry Slechta
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 68
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - USEFUL
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ROCHEPORT
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess derived from mixed over clayey residuum weathered from limestone, sandstone, and shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: noncoherent slight weathered limestone, unspecified at 127cm with <10 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: Cheltenham Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091g6sw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACER

    QUERC

    CARYA

    TORA2

    Acer

    Quercus

    Carya

    Toxicodendron radicans

    maple

    oak

    hybrid hickory

    eastern poison ivy

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    127 -

    - 1 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—79

    127—

    —15—

    —64—

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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

    20

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    229.5

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    80

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006352; observed in pit, small
    BE—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots around fragments and 10.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006353; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; 15 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU006354; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; 55 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/8), 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; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU006355; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; 55 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU006356; observed in pit, small
    3BC—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) broken face clay; massive; very firm; 1.0 fine roots; 55 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 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 grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter chert fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MU006357; observed in pit, small
    3Cg—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); light greenish gray (5GY 8/1) broken face clay; massive; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 25 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), 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; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU006358; observed in pit, small
    3R—127 to 127 centimeters (50.0 to 50.0 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small