IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Forestdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO143002
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO143002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9114302
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30828
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 36.5373878
  • Std. Longitude: -89.5743332
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 82046—Forestdale silty clay loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO143—New Madrid
  • MLRA: 131—Southern Mississippi Valley Alluvium
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO143—New Madrid County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36089-E5—New Madrid, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B.L. Brown, M.T. Aide, M.L. Chalfant
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Aeric Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Forestdale
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Forestdale
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium over loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/20/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    abrupt textural change

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    23—23

    23—114

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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

    0.2

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    90.8

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; hard, firm; 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 medium pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042190
    Bt—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm; 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 medium pores; 5 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042191
    Btg1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042192
    Btg2—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042193
    Btg3—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm; 0.5 fine pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent medium and coarse distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042194
    BC—114 to 135 centimeters (44.9 to 53.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 very fine pores; 1 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042195
    C—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; loamy fine sand; structureless massive; soft, very friable; 0.5 very fine pores; 1 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent coarse faint dark brown (10YR 3/3) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter. Lab sample # MU042196