IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dennis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO057089
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO057089
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9105789
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28918
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.3967750
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0744528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R29W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1670 feet E and 1600 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 1670 feet E and 1600 feet N of the SW corner of Sec. 25, T31N, R27W.
  • Map Unit: 46002—Hepler silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-D1—Golden City, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. D. Chorice and Charles Harwood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dennis
  • PSC - 20 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/27/2020
  • Classifier - J.R. Perkina
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Carytown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Albic Natraqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/25/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • Field Measured Properties: 48.5 percent of pscs clay and 0 percent of pscs gravel and 1.9 percent of pscs sand


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: talf
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/25/2011 (entry creation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    abrupt textural change

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    reduced matrix

    endosaturation

    aquic conditions

    0—43

    20—20

    20—64

    20—208

    20—208

    43—208

    43—208

    43—208

    43—208

    —43—

    —-

    —44—

    —188—

    —188—

    —165—

    —165—

    —165—

    —165—
    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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    —

    309.4

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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), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 76 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; few (0.9) medium roots throughout and few (0.9) fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU041035
    2Bt—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); 50 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) and 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay; 1 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 60 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.9) fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU041036. continuous - phpvsfiid 1632683; continuous - phpvsfiid 1632683
    2Btg—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 36 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 37 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 11 percent fine distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU041037. continuous - phpvsfiid 1632684; continuous - phpvsfiid 1632684
    2Bg1—64 to 109 centimeters (25.2 to 42.9 inches); pale red (2.5YR 6/2) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; 8 percent sand; 66 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak fine platy parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; few (0.9) very fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent distinct manganese coatings on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU041038
    2Bg2—109 to 178 centimeters (42.9 to 70.1 inches); pale red (2.5YR 6/2), white (10YR 8/1), dry; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 71 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak fine angular blocky parts to weak fine platy structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent distinct manganese coatings on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU041039
    2BCg—178 to 208 centimeters (70.1 to 81.9 inches); pale red (2.5YR 6/2) silty clay loam; 6 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 31 percent clay; weak fine angular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent distinct manganese coatings on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter. Lab sample # MU041040