IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): RAMSEY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO13980
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO13980
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO13980
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713980
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25467
  • 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: 38.9040556
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5733333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T48N
  • Range: R6W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 2,560 feet East and 1,584 feet South from the North West 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-H5—Montgomery City, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Knelle, John Horton, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, siliceous, superactive, mesic Lithic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 80
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - RAMSEY
  • PSC - 0 to 20 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GASCONADE
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: St. Peter Sandstone sandy pedisediment derived from sandstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered sandstone, unspecified at 20cm with 100 to <200 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: St. Peter Sandstone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/12/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9/13/2007
  • 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

    QUMA3

    Quercus marilandica

    blackjack oak

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    20 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—20

    20—

    —15—

    —5—

    —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

    10

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    209.1

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    277

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face gravelly loamy fine sand; weak fine granular structure; loose; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002628; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face very gravelly loamy fine sand; weak fine granular structure; loose; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # MU002629; observed in pit, large or quarry