IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Glensted
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167121M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167121
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116709
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 37.5597222
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3922222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T33N
  • Range: R23W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet S and 1320 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 150 feet south and 1,320 feet west of the northeast corner of section 36, T. 33 N., R. 23 W.
  • Map Unit: 73001—Glensted silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Larry Kichler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Vertic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Glensted
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Glensted
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—43

    43—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

    —

    —

    340

    —

    160

    1041

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    —

    13.3

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    —

    —

    —

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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; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU043006
    E—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 12 percent coarse dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU043007
    2Btg1—43 to 97 centimeters (16.9 to 38.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent medium iron-manganese concretions and 12 percent coarse dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 12 percent coarse reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU043008
    2Btg2—97 to 132 centimeters (38.2 to 52.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent medium iron-manganese concretions and 12 percent coarse yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU043009
    2Btg3—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 35 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent medium iron-manganese concretions and 22 percent coarse dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU043010