IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liberal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO167052M
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO167052
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8916752
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.6168972
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5737972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T33N
  • Range: R24W
  • Section: 4
  • Location Description: 1900 feet E and 600 feet S of the Prop line
  • Map Unit: 40002—Liberal silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard L. Henderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Aquollic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Liberal
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Liberal
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from shale and siltstone and/or residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: shale, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—20

    20—107

    107—127

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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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    293

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU008919
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 33 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 16 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU008920
    Bt2—33 to 66 centimeters (13.0 to 26.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 11 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine red (2.5YR 4/6); 16 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU008921
    Bt3—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU008922
    Bt4—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05
    Cr—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); weathered bedrock; strong medium platy structure; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Stratified black shale. Roots are on strata faces.