IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gatewood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988MO167004M
  • User Pedon ID: 1988MO167004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8816704
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 37.7005611
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3344750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T34N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 650 feet E and 1250 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 650 feet east and 1250 feet north of the SW corner of S3, T34N, R22W.
  • Map Unit: 73002—Ocie-Gatewood complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lewis Graves and Richard L. Henderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gatewood
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gatewood
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/28/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from dolomite and/or residuum weathered from dolomite and/or solid rock derived from dolomite
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/28/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—33

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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

    9

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    335

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) cobbly silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU014512
    E—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) cobbly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU014513
    2Bt1—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent fine dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU014514
    2Bt2—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) cobbly clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 15 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU014515
    2Bt3—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU014516
    2Bt4—89 to 102 centimeters (35.0 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU014517
    2R—102 centimeters (40.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Hard dolomite bedrock.