IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cherokee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO057052
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO057052
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9105752
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33409
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.5737972
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0523278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T33N
  • Range: R28W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 2600 feet S and 1300 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 2600 feet south and 1300 feet east of the northwest corner of section 30, T. 33 N., R. 28 W. "Approximately 310 ft. south of farm lane and 600 ft. east of road." "At or around 28 inches showed some brittleness."
  • Map Unit: 40000—Barden silt loam, 1 to 3 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-E1—Jerico Springs, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Charles Harwood, Max Aldrich and R. D. Chorice.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, thermic Albaquic 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 - Cherokee
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2020
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cherokee
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 35.5 percent of pscs clay and 14.9 percent of pscs gravel and 11.9 percent of pscs sand


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy loess derived from sedimentary rock over fine-loamy colluvium derived from sandstone and shale over clayey residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/1991 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

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    25 - 25

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—25

    25—152

    25—152

    25—152

    46—117

    117—152

    —25—

    —127—

    —127—

    —127—

    —71—

    —35—
    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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    305.4

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 36 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 10 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; many (5.0) medium roots throughout and many (5.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040843
    BA—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; 25 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 20 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; firm; many (5.0) medium roots throughout and many (5.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040844
    Bt1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); 34 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 33 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and 33 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; 14 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 44 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; common (3.0) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040845. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1837922; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1837922
    2Bt2—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); 34 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 33 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 33 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; common (3.0) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040846. continuous - phpvsfiid 1837924; continuous - phpvsfiid 1837924
    2Bt3—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); 34 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) and 33 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 33 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) gravelly clay loam; 25 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to strong thick platy structure; firm; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-163-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 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; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU040847. continuous - phpvsfiid 1837923; continuous - phpvsfiid 1837923
    2Bt4—89 to 117 centimeters (35.0 to 46.1 inches); 34 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) and 33 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 33 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) very cobbly loam; 25 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 27 percent clay; strong thick platy structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent manganese coatings; 20 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU040848
    3Bt5—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); 34 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 33 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) and 33 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) extremely cobbly clay; 22 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 45 percent clay; weak thick platy structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent manganese coatings and 12 percent fine irregular iron-manganese concretions and 13 percent medium irregular iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent fine iron-manganese masses; 10 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-163-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter. Lab sample # MU040849