IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): KNOX
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO195050
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO195050
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0719550
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25661
  • 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: 39.3303333
  • Std. Longitude: -93.2188056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T52N
  • Range: R21W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 3,330 feet West and 249 feet South from the North East corner
  • Location Description: More detailed UTM coordinates and elevation data exists at MODOT
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO195—Saline
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO195—Saline County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39093-C2—Miami, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Chalfant, Amber Marshaus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, unclassified, mesic Dystric Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 50
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - KNOX
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, unclassified, mesic Dystric Eutrochrepts
  • PSC - 74 to 150 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/30/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - second edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Quaternary System coarse-silty loess derived from mixed over Quaternary System coarse-silty pedisediment derived from mixed
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: ridge
  • Anthropogenic Feature: cut (road, railroad, etc.)
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Upper Wisconsinan Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/30/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39093c2nw
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—226

    5—536

    48—81

    81—318

    348—536

    348—536

    —226—

    —531—

    —33—

    —237—

    —188—

    —188—
    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

    25

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    209.1

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    210

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    Bw—0 to 48 centimeters (0.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003980; observed in pit, small
    2ABb—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003981; observed in pit, small
    2Bwb1—81 to 165 centimeters (31.9 to 65.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 10.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular pores; 30 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003983; observed in pit, small
    2Bwb2—165 to 226 centimeters (65.0 to 89.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 8 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent fine prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003985; observed in pit, small
    2Bwb3—226 to 318 centimeters (89.0 to 125.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003986; observed in pit, small
    3ABb—318 to 348 centimeters (125.2 to 137.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct skeletans on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003987; observed in pit, small
    3Bwb—348 to 404 centimeters (137.0 to 159.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 12 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent fine prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003988; observed in pit, small
    3BCb1—404 to 465 centimeters (159.1 to 183.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; massive; friable; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 4 percent distinct skeletans on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent fine prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003989; observed in pit, small
    3BCb2—465 to 538 centimeters (183.1 to 211.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; massive; friable; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 6 percent distinct skeletans on vertical faces of peds; 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 dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU003990; observed in pit, small