IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Viraton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO057026M
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO057026
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8905726
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 37.4705350
  • Std. Longitude: -93.9237120
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R27W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet N and 10 feet E of the center
  • Location Description: 600 feet north and 10 feet east of the middle of Sec. 32, T. 32 N., R. 27 W.
  • Map Unit: 73008—Viraton silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37093-D8—Lockwood, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lewis Graves, R. D. Chorice and Max Aldrich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudalfs
  • 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 - Viraton
  • PSC - 20 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or slope alluvium derived from cherty limestone and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—10

    10—20

    20—53

    66—132

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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

    2

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    323

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    225

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035359
    E—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035360
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035361
    2Bt2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035362
    2Bt3—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035363
    3Btx1—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; 60 percent distinct red (2.5YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035364
    3Btx2—86 to 132 centimeters (33.9 to 52.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035365
    4BC—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) extremely gravelly clay loam; massive; firm; 70 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU035366