IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sylvania

OSD

Series Extent

Local Phase: moderately deep

User Site ID: 1989MO057044

User Pedon ID: 1989MO057044

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes

Lab Source ID - MCL

Lab Pedon # - M8905744

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33484

Print Date: 5/7/2025

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: 37.5227806

Std. Longitude: -93.9104028

Datum: WGS84

Township: T32N

Range: R27W

Section: 9

PLSS Details: 700 feet N and 950 feet E of the SW corner

Location Description: 700 feet north and 950 feet east of the southwest of section 9, T. 32 N., R. 27 W.

Map Unit: 40005—Sylvania loam, 5 to 15 percent slopes, very stony

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: R. D. Chorice and Max Aldrich

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Typic Haplohumults

Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family

Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series

Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site

Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Sylvania

PSC - 13 to 63 cm.

Classificaton Date - 6/5/2020

Classifier - J.R. Perkins

Moisture Class - udic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Barco

Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Humic Hapludults

Taxon Kind - series

PSC - 33 to 83 cm.

Classificaton Date - 12/15/1989

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

Certification Status: certified

Field Measured Properties: 45 percent of pscs clay and 5 percent of pscs gravel and 10.8 percent of pscs sand

SITE

Parent Material: fine-loamy slope alluvium derived from sandstone over clayey slope alluvium derived from shale

Landscape: plateau

Landform: hill

Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope

Hill Slope Profile: backslope

Slope Position: middle third

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: convex

Slope Shape Down: convex

Runoff: medium

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 86cm; strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 99cm

Geology: ;

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 12/15/1989 (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 Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
bedrock, paralithic bedrock, lithic	weakly coherent strongly coherent	86 - 99 99 -	- 13 - —

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon argillic horizon paralithic materials lithic contact	0—13 13—86 86—99 99—	—13— —73— —13— —-

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	—	—	317	—	350	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; 30 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; many (5.0) fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035391

Bt1—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; clay loam; 24 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035392

2Bt1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; 8 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 53 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035393

2Bt2—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; 2 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 61 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035394

2Bt3—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silty clay; 3 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 56 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU035395

3Cr—86 to 99 centimeters (33.9 to 39.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) weathered bedrock; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.

3R—99 centimeters (39.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.