IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parsons
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO057025
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO057025
  • User Site Association ID: SDJR - MLRA 112 - Parsons silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8905725
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33487
  • 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: 37.4727778
  • Std. Longitude: -93.9233333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R27W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 1350 feet S and 2500 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 1350 feet south and 2500 feet west of the northeast corner sec. 32, T. 32 N., R. 27 W.
  • Map Unit: 40008—Parsons silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lewis Graves and R. D. Chorice
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, thermic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Parsons
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Parsons
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/12/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or colluvium and/or residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/12/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    albic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—41

    41—48

    41—152

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    2

    325

    20

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium platy structure; very friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 1 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035354
    E—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; weak very fine platy structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035355
    Btg1—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent medium dark red (2.5YR 3/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035356
    Btg2—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035357
    Btg3—79 to 152 centimeters (31.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU035358