IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wilderness
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO057032M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO057032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9105732
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 37.4152325
  • Std. Longitude: -93.9033701
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R27W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet W and 200 feet N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 120 ft north of fence and 300 ft west of drain.
  • Map Unit: 73010—Wilderness gravelly silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. D. Chorice, Charles Harwood and Max Aldrich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilderness
  • PSC - 20 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nixa
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from cherty limestone over residuum weathered from cherty limestone over solid rock derived from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    fragipan

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    41 - 69

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—41

    41—69

    51—127

    127—203

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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

    1

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    329

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    40

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; deformable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 18 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU016751
    E—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 5/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; deformable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU016752
    Bt—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) gravelly silt loam; moderate medium platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; deformable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 4 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU016753
    2Ex—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) extremely gravelly silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU016754
    2Btx—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) extremely gravelly silt loam; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU016755
    2Bt1—69 to 104 centimeters (27.2 to 40.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) and light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; firm; deformable; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU016756
    3Bt2—104 to 127 centimeters (40.9 to 50.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and red (2.5YR 5/6) clay loam; strong coarse angular blocky structure; firm; deformable; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU016757
    3R—127 centimeters (50.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.