IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Viraton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO161005M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO161005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1991MO161005
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T6-91
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116105
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 37.9354170
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6915000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T37N
  • Range: R7W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 908 feet W and 196 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 908 feet west and 196 feet south from the northeast corner of Sec. 16, T. 37 N., R. 7 W.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO161—Phelps
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO161—Phelps County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37091-H6—Dillon, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • PSC - 30 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/10/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 30 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed over Jefferson City Dolomite silty and clayey slope alluvium derived from interbedded sedimentary rock over Roubidoux Formation clayey residuum weathered from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Roubidoux Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/22/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37091h6sw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUVE

    QUAL

    Quercus velutina

    Quercus alba

    black oak

    white oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    56 - 76

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    3—30

    30—152

    56—76

    —27—

    —122—

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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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    310.6

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    360

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; 100 percent silt; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; silt loam; 100 percent silt; weak subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    E—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; 100 percent silt; weak fine platy structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BE—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; 100 percent silt; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face gravelly silt loam; 100 percent silt; weak fine and medium prismatic structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 35 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Btx—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face extremely gravelly silt loam; 100 percent silt; weak fine platy structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 12 percent faint clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented red (10R 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 75 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3Bt1—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches); 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, 50 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, dry; very gravelly silty clay; 100 percent silt; moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent faint clay films; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3Bt2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) broken face, dry; gravelly clay; weak fine and medium prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent faint clay films; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments.; observed in pit, small