IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Viraton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO057035M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO057035
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9105735
  • 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: 37.4264278
  • Std. Longitude: -93.9055167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R27W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 2500 feet W and 2400 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 2500 ft. west and 2400 ft. south of the northeast corner of sec. 16, T 31 N, R 27 W.
  • Map Unit: 73008—Viraton silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Aldrich, Charles Harwood and R. D. Chorice
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, 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 - Viraton
  • PSC - 30 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 30 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or slope alluvium derived from cherty limestone and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/1991 (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

    fragipan

    0—30

    30—173

    69—102

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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

    2

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    322

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    40

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040762
    AB—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; strong medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040763
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU040764
    Bt2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine and medium spherical iron-manganese concretions; 16 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU040765
    2Btx—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) very gravelly clay; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine iron-manganese masses; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 35 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU040766
    3Bt3—102 to 124 centimeters (40.2 to 48.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) extremely stony clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU040767
    3Bt4—124 to 173 centimeters (48.8 to 68.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very stony clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU040768