IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nixa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978AR005001
  • User Pedon ID: 1978AR005001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 36.2777700
  • Std. Longitude: -92.6805000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T19N
  • Range: R16W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • State: Arkansas
  • County: AR005—Baxter
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, active, mesic Glossic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nixa
  • PSC - 25 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/28/2013
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium over residuum
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/2012 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    56 - 112

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

    ochric epipedon

    fragipan

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    56—112

    56—183

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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
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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; deformable; common fine roots; few fine pores; 40 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    E—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; deformable; common medium roots; common fine pores; 40 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-10 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bw—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; deformable; common fine roots; few fine pores; 60 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 3 - 10-? millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Btx—56 to 112 centimeters (22.0 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; brittle; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) iron-manganese masses and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) iron-manganese masses and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; 70 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 3-?-15 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.
    2Bt—112 to 183 centimeters (44.1 to 72.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) very cobbly silty clay loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; brittle; few fine pores; clay films on all faces of peds; 80 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2 - 15-? millimeter chert fragments.