IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Niangua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1985MO029001S
  • User Pedon ID: 1985MO029001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985MO029001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0213
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024
  • 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: 38.1027794
  • Std. Longitude: -92.6252747
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T39N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: NE corner of NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Toronto Quadrangle.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO029—Camden
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. D. Broderson, D. W. Wolf, and D. Viele
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Niangua
  • PSC - 61 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Niangua
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal over clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Hap
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 61 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    JUVI

    QUST

    QUVE

    Juniperus virginiana

    Quercus stellata

    Quercus velutina

    eastern redcedar

    post oak

    black oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—7

    61—98

    98—108

    108—115

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    4

    2505

    225

    102

    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Lab sample # 86P01266
    A—1 to 8 centimeters (0.4 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; very gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 medium roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P01267; moist when described;. many medium roots throughout
    BE—8 to 48 centimeters (3.1 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; very gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout and 2.5 coarse roots throughout; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01268; wet when described;. many fine and medium roots throughout; common coarse roots throughout
    2E—48 to 62 centimeters (18.9 to 24.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior extremely gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 medium and coarse roots between peds and 5.5 fine roots between peds; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01269; wet when described;. many fine roots between peds; common medium and coarse roots between peds
    2Bt1—62 to 73 centimeters (24.4 to 28.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 5.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01270; wet when described;. Water seepage into soil pit at 61 cm.; few fine and medium roots between peds
    2Bt2—73 to 99 centimeters (28.7 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01271; wet when described;. few fine and medium roots between peds
    2Cr—99 to 109 centimeters (39.0 to 42.9 inches); clay loam; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P01272; wet when described;. few fine roots in cracks
    2R—109 to 116 centimeters (42.9 to 45.7 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Not sampled.