IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): KESWICK
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO139055
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO139055
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO139055
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713955
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25630
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.8728333
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5349444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R6W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 2,289 feet West and 2,089 feet South from the North East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO139—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO603—Montgomery and Warren Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-G5—Americus, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Knelle, John Horton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Chromic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 55
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - KESWICK
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Chromic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 24 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2007
  • 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

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091g5ne
  • 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

    CARYA

    ULAM

    RHAR4

    Carya

    Ulmus americana

    Rhus aromatica

    hybrid hickory

    American elm

    fragrant sumac

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—12

    24—155

    64—

    —12—

    —131—

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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

    11

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    242.6

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    323

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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003746; observed in cut
    BE—12 to 24 centimeters (4.7 to 9.4 inches); 80 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face and 20 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003747; observed in cut
    Bt1—24 to 48 centimeters (9.4 to 18.9 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003748; observed in cut
    Bt2—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); 60 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003749; observed in cut
    2Bt3—64 to 108 centimeters (25.2 to 42.5 inches); 50 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/4) broken face and 50 percent dark greenish gray (5G 4/1) broken face clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 35 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003750; observed in cut
    2Bt4—108 to 155 centimeters (42.5 to 61.0 inches); 80 percent greenish gray (10Y 5/1) broken face and 20 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) broken face clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 12 percent fine distinct white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003751; observed in cut
    2Cg—155 to 180 centimeters (61.0 to 70.9 inches); 70 percent pale green (5G 6/2) broken face and 15 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) broken face and 15 percent weak red (10R 4/2) broken face clay loam; massive; firm; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent fine distinct white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU003752; observed in cut