IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Celt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984MO215004S
  • User Pedon ID: 1984MO215004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0593
  • 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: 37.5855560
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7780533
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T33N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: S edge of NE 1/4 of SW 1/4 of SE 1/4
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO215—Texas
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Miles B. Brown and K. Vogt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Celt
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed and/or loess derived from mixed and/or alluvium derived from mixed and/or residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—33

    33—80

    80—95

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    418

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    Ap—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03307. Boundary abrupt in places.; many fine roots throughout; few medium roots
    E—21 to 33 centimeters (8.3 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03308. Faunal activity throughout horizon many ant casts 2 cm in diameter filled with A material.; few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common fine roots throughout
    2Bt1—33 to 47 centimeters (13.0 to 18.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine distinct and 1 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 37 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03309. FeMN more in upper part of horizon.; few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; few fine distinct 10YR53 mottles; few fine prominent 5YR44 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 217396; continuous - phpvsfiid 217396
    2Bt2—47 to 61 centimeters (18.5 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silty clay; 45 percent clay; 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03310. very few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; many fine prominent 5YR44 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 217397; continuous - phpvsfiid 217397
    2Bt3—61 to 80 centimeters (24.0 to 31.5 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak medium platy, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 fine roots throughout; , moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds and 37 percent , moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 37 percent , moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03311. Platy structure in lower part of horizon. Pebbles are in lower part of horizon.; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds; common clay films surface features on horizontal faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; many fine and medium distinct 7.5YR44 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 217398; continuous - phpvsfiid 217399; continuous - phpvsfiid 217398; continuous - phpvsfiid 217399
    3Btx—80 to 95 centimeters (31.5 to 37.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior cobbly clay loam; 30 percent clay; 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) coarse prominent mottles; weak fine platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.1 roots in cracks; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03312. Massive in lower part. 25% coarse frags in upper 4 or 5 cm 50% in lower part.; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; very few roots in cracks; many coarse prominent 10YR52 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 217401; continuous - phpvsfiid 217401
    4Bt—95 to 128 centimeters (37.4 to 50.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior extremely cobbly clay loam; 30 percent clay; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 90 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 84P03313. Silica cemented sandstone. Fines are plastered amoung rock frag. Most likely illuviated clay in root channels.