IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gerald
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO057091
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO057091
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9105791
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33398
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 37.4025444
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8693000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R27W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet S and 2600 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 300 feet south and 2600 feet west of the northeast corner of section 26, R. 31 N., R. 27 W.
  • Map Unit: 73031—Gerald silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. D. Chorice, Charles Harwood and Gary Sturdevent
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Umbric Fragiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gerald
  • PSC - 30 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gerald
  • Classificaton Date - 12/10/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or colluvium and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/10/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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—152

    66—152

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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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    337

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU041041
    E—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium and coarse roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU041042
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 4 percent fine red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU041043. continuous - phpvsfiid 156042; continuous - phpvsfiid 156042
    Bt2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses and 10 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU041044. continuous - phpvsfiid 156043; continuous - phpvsfiid 156043
    2Btx1—66 to 102 centimeters (26.0 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; extremely firm*; brittle; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; 30 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent fine gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU041045. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 156045; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 156045
    2Btx2—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely firm*; brittle; 30 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent fine gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU041046. continuous - phpvsfiid 156047; continuous - phpvsfiid 156047