IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alsup
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988MO167036M
  • User Pedon ID: 1988MO167036
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8916736
  • 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: 37.7766472
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3188167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T35N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet W and 100 feet N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 100 feet west and 100 feet north of the SE corner of S14, R22W, T35N.
  • Map Unit: 70002—Alsup gravelly silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Aldrich and Richard L. Henderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alsup
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ventris
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/3/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from shale and siltstone and/or residuum weathered from shale and siltstone and/or solid rock derived from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: shale and siltstone
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/3/1988 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—147

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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

    3

    323

    180

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU036083
    E—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; moderate fine platy structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU036084
    2Bt1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 60 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU036085
    2Bt2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 60 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent fine reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU036086
    2Bt31—61 to 80 centimeters (24.0 to 31.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 60 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent fine reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU036087
    2Bt32—80 to 114 centimeters (31.5 to 44.9 inches); clay; fragments. Lab sample # MU036088
    2Bt4—114 to 147 centimeters (44.9 to 57.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) cobbly silty clay loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 60 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent fine reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent fine light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU036089
    2C—147 to 165 centimeters (57.9 to 65.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) cobbly silty clay loam; massive; firm; 15 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; 15 percent fine brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent fine light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions and 15 percent fine reddish brown (5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU036090