IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): KNOX
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO195052
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO195052
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0719552
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25662
  • 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: 39.3302500
  • Std. Longitude: -93.2192222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T52N
  • Range: R21W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 3,448 feet West and 275 feet South from the North East corner
  • Location Description: MODOT has more detailed State Plan coordinates and elevatins of, 675.513, 671.05, and 669.865 ft msl.
  • 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, mesic Dystric Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 52
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - KNOX
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Dystric Eutrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - second edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: beveled base
  • Anthropogenic Feature: cut (road, railroad, etc.)
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for extremely brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Upper Wisconsinan Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39093c2nw
  • Surface Water Kind: flooded
  • Surface Water Depth: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—5

    5—33

    33—183

    33—183

    —5—

    —28—

    —150—

    —150—
    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

    6.5

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    —

    204.2

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    290

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face Error; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU003993; observed in pit, small
    3CBp—5 to 33 centimeters (2.0 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; massive; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organic stains; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003994; observed in pit, small
    4C—33 to 127 centimeters (13.0 to 50.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; 10 percent sand; massive, and weak thin platy; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003995; observed in pit, small
    4C—127 to 183 centimeters (50.0 to 72.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent fine prominent cylindrical noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with clear boundaries; fragments. Lab sample # MU003997; observed in pit, small