IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): DAMERON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990MO053007M
  • User Pedon ID: 1990MO053007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9005307
  • 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: 38.6872500
  • Std. Longitude: -92.6824444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T45N
  • Range: R16W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 2395 feet E and 1946 feet N of the SW corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO053—Cooper
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO053—Cooper County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-F6—Clarksburg, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Caldwell, David Skaer, Aaron Woods
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - DAMERON
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - DAMERON
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/11/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed over clayey residuum weathered from aa lava
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/11/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38092f6ne
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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 sheet
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    81 - 152

    - 71 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—20

    20—30

    30—81

    81—152

    —20—

    —10—

    —51—

    —71—
    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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    274.3

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037464; observed in push tube
    E—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots; 1 percent prominent silt coats on all faces of peds and 40 percent distinct organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037465; observed in push tube
    Bt1—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent prominent silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037466; observed in push tube
    Bt2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 10.0 fine roots; 70 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037467; observed in push tube
    Bt3—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 1 percent distinct silt coats on surfaces along root channels and 35 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037468; observed in push tube
    2Ex1—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent distinct silt coats on surfaces along root channels and 12 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037469; observed in push tube
    2Ex2—107 to 132 centimeters (42.1 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds and 40 percent prominent silt coats on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037470; observed in push tube
    3Btx—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior extremely gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 12 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 250-?-600 millimeter chert fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU037471; observed in push tube