IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eldorado
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO057035M
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO057035
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8905735
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 37.5525111
  • Std. Longitude: -93.9073556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T33N
  • Range: R27W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1050 feet N and 1320 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 1050 feet north and 1320 feet east of the southwest corner of section 33, T. 33 N., R. 27 W.
  • Map Unit: 70000—Bona gravelly silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37093-E8—Cedarville, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Aldrich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, thermic Mollic Paleudalfs
  • 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 - Eldorado
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eldon
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy slope alluvium derived from cherty limestone and/or silty and clayey residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/11/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    umbric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    48—160

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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

    4

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    309

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013542
    A1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; moderate fine platy structure; friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013543
    BA—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very gravelly loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine roots; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013544
    2Bt1—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very gravelly clay loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013545
    2Bt2—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) cobbly clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013546
    2Bt3—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU013547
    2Bt4—122 to 150 centimeters (48.0 to 59.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; massive; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 30 percent medium pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013548
    2Bt5—150 to 160 centimeters (59.1 to 63.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) clay loam; massive; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent fine red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU013549