IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arkana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1987MO161024M
  • User Pedon ID: 1987MO161024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8716124
  • 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: 38.1013000
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6022000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T39N
  • Range: R6W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 950 feet W and 2650 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 50 feet North of road
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO161—Phelps
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dale Sprankle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkana
  • PSC - 30 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/28/2014
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkana
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 30 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/25/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone) at 64cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • 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

    14

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    274.3

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    15

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; common very fine roots and common fine roots; 45 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU031975
    E—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; common very fine roots and common fine roots; 65 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU031976
    2Bt1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; common medium roots and common fine roots; 20 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU031977
    2Bt2—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few medium roots and few coarse roots; 20 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU031978
    R—64 centimeters (25.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.