IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Topazmill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1987MO009003M
  • User Pedon ID: 1987MO009003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8700903
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 36.5241806
  • Std. Longitude: -93.6003944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T21N
  • Range: R25W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 1580 feet N and 400 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 1580 feet N and 400 feet E of the SW corner of Sec. 13, T21N, R25W.
  • Map Unit: 74638—Waben very gravelly silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO009—Barry
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO009—Barry County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36093-E5—Viola, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Aldrich, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Topazmill
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/2020
  • Classifier - J.R. Perkins
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Portia
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/25/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • Field Measured Properties: 10.1 percent of pscs clay and 0 percent of pscs gravel and 54.3 percent of pscs sand


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: structural bench
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/18/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—170

    —18—

    —152—
    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

    2

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    288

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    300

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; 63 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine platy structure; very friable; few (0.9) very fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU031395
    Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; friable; few (0.9) very fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU031396
    Bt2—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.9) medium roots throughout; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU031397
    Bt3—66 to 119 centimeters (26.0 to 46.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; 66 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.9) fine roots throughout; 11 percent medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU031398
    Bt4—119 to 170 centimeters (46.9 to 66.9 inches); 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) sandy loam; 79 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume indurated 2-30-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter. Lab sample # MU031399