IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Taumsauk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988MO123007M
  • User Pedon ID: 1988MO123007M
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8812307
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31420
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 37.4899712
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4294968
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R6E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1950 feet S and 2050 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 1950 ft. S. and 2050 ft. E. of the NW corner of sec 6, T. 32 N., R. 6 E.
  • Map Unit: 77007—Taumsauk-Irondale-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes, extremely stony45F—Taumsauk-Irondale-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 40 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO123—Madison
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO123—Madison County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37090-D4—Rock Pile Mountain, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RM, JF and BB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Lithic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Taumsauk
  • PSC - 23 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Taumsauk
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Lithic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/17/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from acid igneous rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/17/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: B-5
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    46 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    23—46

    46—

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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

    8

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    244

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    270

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU033688
    BA—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) very cobbly silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU033689
    Bt—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) extremely cobbly silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; clay films; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 75 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU033690. Clay content increased with depth but was not able to sample because of fragment content.; continuous - phpvsfiid 161898; continuous - phpvsfiid 161898
    R—46 centimeters (18.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.