IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nixa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1987MO161019M
  • User Pedon ID: 1987MO161019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8716119
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 37.9141804
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8690063
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T37N
  • Range: R9W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet S and 2900 feet W of the NW corner
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO161—Phelps
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dale Sprankle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, active, mesic Glossic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nixa
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/28/2013
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nixa
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, active, mesic Glossic Fragiudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/25/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium over residuum
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Ksat Class Lower: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/25/2011 (entry creation 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
    • 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

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    297.2

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; strong very fine granular structure; friable; deformable; many (52.0) fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; few (0.5) fine tubular pores; 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-8 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU031948
    E—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; strong very fine granular structure; friable; deformable; few (0.5) fine roots between peds; few (0.5) fine tubular pores; 65 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-8 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU031949
    2Ex—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; massive; firm; deformable; few (0.5) very fine roots between peds; 2 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; 70 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-8 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU031950
    2Btx—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silty clay loam; weak thick platy structure; extremely firm; brittle; few (0.5) very fine roots between peds; 10 percent prominent clay films; 10 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses and 10 percent fine prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; 70 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-8 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU031951
    3Bt1—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 5 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium distinct and 10 percent dark red (10R 3/6) medium prominent mottles; strong very fine angular blocky structure; friable; deformable; few (0.5) fine roots between peds; 20 percent prominent clay films; 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-8 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU031952
    3Bt2—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) clay; 10 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium prominent and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; strong very fine angular blocky structure; friable; deformable; few (0.5) fine roots between peds; 2 percent prominent clay films; 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-8 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # MU031953