IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bolivar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO057049
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO057049
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8905749
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26659
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 37.4349111
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0213861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R28W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet N and 750 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 800 feet north and 750 feet east of the southwest corner of section 9, T. 31 N., R. 28 W.
  • Map Unit: 70040—Cliquot-Bolivar complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-CLI—Clinton, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-D1—Golden City, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Aldrich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, thermic Aquic Hapludults
  • 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 - Bolivar
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/2020
  • Classifier - J.R. Perkins
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bolivar
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • Field Measured Properties: 24.9 percent of pscs clay and 48.8 percent of pscs gravel and 16.5 percent of pscs sand


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly slope alluvium derived from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 76cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/12/1989 (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

    weakly coherent

    76 - 160

    - 84 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    paralithic materials

    0—13

    13—160

    13—76

    51—160

    76—160

    —13—

    —147—

    —63—

    —109—

    —84—
    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

    8

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    323

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    290

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loam; 47 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; few (0.5) medium roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU011050
    Bt1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly loam; 38 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many (5.0) medium roots throughout and many (5.0) fine roots throughout; 70 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU011051
    Bt2—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very gravelly clay loam; 27 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; common (3.0) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 70 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 50 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU011052
    Bt3—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely gravelly loam; 29 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 24 percent clay; strong medium platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) medium roots throughout and few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 37 percent prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 70 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-163-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 70 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU011053
    2Cr1—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches); 34 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 33 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 33 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; 16 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 14 percent clay; strong medium platy structure; very firm; many (5.0) medium roots throughout and many (5.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU011054
    2Cr2—109 to 160 centimeters (42.9 to 63.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; 18 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 14 percent clay; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; strong medium platy structure; very firm; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter. Lab sample # MU011055