Major Land Resource Area 080A
Central Rolling Red Prairies
Accessed: 12/21/2024
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Key Characteristics
- Run on hydrology (floodplains, depressions)
- Floodplain or floodplain step
- Not ponded
- Natric or salts are present
- Sodic with prismatic structure in the subsurface horizons with red colors (7YR) and a SAR greater than 13.
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Key Characteristics
- Run off or neutral hydrology (uplands, terrace)
- Greater than 20 inches (50 cm) to a restrictive layer.
- No surface salts and crusting visible.
- Loam surface (loam, silty loam, clay loam, fine sandy loam)
- Abrupt texture change (increase in clay) within 30 inches of surface.
- Mean annual air temperature <60 degrees
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Key Characteristics
- Run off or neutral hydrology (uplands, terrace)
- Greater than 20 inches (50 cm) to a restrictive layer.
- No surface salts and crusting visible.
- Loam surface (loam, silty loam, clay loam, fine sandy loam)
- Abrupt texture change (increase in clay) within 30 inches of surface.
- Mean annual air temperature >60 degrees
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Key Characteristics
- Run off or neutral hydrology (uplands, terrace)
- Greater than 20 inches (50 cm) to a restrictive layer.
- No surface salts and crusting visible.
- Sandy surface (sand, fine sand, loamy fine sand).
- Low dunes or hummocks with argillic (Lamellae).
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Key Characteristics
- Run off or neutral hydrology (uplands, terrace)
- Greater than 20 inches (50 cm) to a restrictive layer.
- No surface salts and crusting visible.
- Sandy surface (sand, fine sand, loamy fine sand).
- Dunes or hummocks with no argillic horizon (sand over sand) (clay <10%, sand >70%)
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Key Characteristics
- Run on hydrology (floodplains, depressions)
- Closed depressions or interdunal depressions on sand sheets
- Loam textures with redox within 30 inches
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Key Characteristics
- Run on hydrology (floodplains, depressions)
- Floodplain or floodplain step
- Not ponded
- No salts present
- Loam or clay surface (greater than 4 inches (10 cm))
- >35% clay throughout the upper soil profile (20 inches (50 cm))
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Key Characteristics
- Run on hydrology (floodplains, depressions)
- Floodplain or floodplain step
- Not ponded
- No salts present
- Loam or clay surface (greater than 4 inches (10 cm))
- >18% clay but <35% clay throughout the upper soil profile (20 inches (50 cm))
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Key Characteristics
- Run off or neutral hydrology (uplands, terrace)
- Greater than 20 inches (50 cm) to a restrictive layer.
- No surface salts and crusting visible.
- Loam surface (loam, silty loam, clay loam, fine sandy loam)
- No abrupt texture change.
- Loam or clay loam subsoils
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Key Characteristics
- Run on hydrology (floodplains, depressions)
- Floodplain or floodplain step
- Not ponded
- Natric or salts are present
- Saline with a Columnar structure in the subsurface horizons with a brown surface colors (10YR) and an EC greater than 4 mmohs/cm.
- Run on hydrology (floodplains, depressions)
- Floodplain or floodplain step
- Not ponded
- No salts present
- Sandy surface (greater than 4 inches (10 cm))
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Key Characteristics
- Run off or neutral hydrology (uplands, terrace)
- Greater than 20 inches (50 cm) to a restrictive layer.
- No surface salts and crusting visible.
- Loam surface (loam, silty loam, clay loam, fine sandy loam)
- No abrupt texture change.
- Sandy loam or sandy clay loam subsoils
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Key Characteristics
- Run off or neutral hydrology (uplands, terrace)
- Less than 20 inches (50 cm) to a restrictive layer
- Clay or Clay loam over red shale (>35% clay)
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Key Characteristics
- Run off or neutral hydrology (uplands, terrace)
- Less than 20 inches (50 cm) to a restrictive layer
- Loam or Sandy Loam over sandstone (clay >18% but <35%)
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Key Characteristics
- Run on hydrology (floodplains, depressions)
- Floodplain or floodplain step
- Ponded with redox within 10 inches
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Key Characteristics
- Run off or neutral hydrology (uplands, terrace)
- Greater than 20 inches (50 cm) to a restrictive layer.
- Surface salts and crusting visible.
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Key Characteristics
- Run on hydrology (floodplains, depressions)
- Closed depressions or interdunal depressions on sand sheets
- Sand textures with redox within 50 inches
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MLRA 80A Dichotomous Key
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Run on hydrology (floodplains, depressions)
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Closed depressions or interdunal depressions on sand sheets
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Floodplain or floodplain step
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Not ponded
i.
Natric or salts are present
a.
Sodic with prismatic structure in the subsurface horizons with red colors (7YR) and a SAR greater than 13.
... R080AY001OK – Alkali Bottomland
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Saline with a Columnar structure in the subsurface horizons with a brown surface colors (10YR) and an EC greater than 4 mmohs/cm.
... R080AY068OK – Sandy Bottomland
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No salts present
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Loam or clay surface (greater than 4 inches (10 cm))
1)
>35% clay throughout the upper soil profile (20 inches (50 cm))
... R080AY045OK – Clay Bottomland
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>18% clay but <35% clay throughout the upper soil profile (20 inches (50 cm))
... R080AY050OK – Loamy Bottomland
II.
Run off or neutral hydrology (uplands, terrace)
A.
Less than 20 inches (50 cm) to a restrictive layer
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Greater than 20 inches (50 cm) to a restrictive layer.
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No surface salts and crusting visible.
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Loam surface (loam, silty loam, clay loam, fine sandy loam)
a.
Abrupt texture change (increase in clay) within 30 inches of surface.
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No abrupt texture change.
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Sandy surface (sand, fine sand, loamy fine sand).
a.
Dunes or hummocks with no argillic horizon (sand over sand) (clay <10%, sand >70%)
... R080AY022OK – Dune
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