IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Britwater
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO141016M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO141016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9114116
  • 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: 38.2624722
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8748333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T40N
  • Range: R18W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet S and 100 feet E of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: 14C—Britwater silt loam, 3 to 9 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO141—Morgan
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO141—Morgan County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-C7—Gravois Mills, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wolf, Knoernschild, Viele
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Britwater
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Secesh
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/15/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/15/2004 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—155

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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

    7

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    268.2

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    315

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior and brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, dry; silt loam; mottles; weak fine granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 3-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU042135; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior silt loam; 10 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 3-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042136; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior silt loam; 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 3-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042137; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior silt loam; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent distinct manganese coatings on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 3-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042138; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior gravelly silt loam; 10 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) fine prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 fine roots; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct silt coats on surfaces along root channels; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 3-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU042139; observed in pit, small
    2Bt5—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior extremely gravelly loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine prominent and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine distinct and 10 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 fine roots; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent distinct manganese coatings on faces of peds; 16 percent by volume nonflat indurated 77-?-249 millimeter chert fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat indurated 3-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU042140; observed in pit, small
    2Bt6—122 to 155 centimeters (48.0 to 61.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 fine roots; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 40 percent distinct silt coats on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 77-?-249 millimeter chert fragments and 65 percent by volume nonflat indurated 3-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # MU042141; observed in pit, small