IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wilderness
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167160M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167160
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9216702
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.4217000
  • Std. Longitude: -93.1942000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R21W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet N and 1800 feet W of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 1500 feet north and 1800 feet west of the southwest corner of sec. 12, T. 31 N., R. 21 W
  • Map Unit: 73010—Wilderness gravelly silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard L. Henderson, Larry Kickler, John Bowers and Richard McBee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, siliceous Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilderness
  • PSC - 30 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilderness
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 30 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from cherty limestone and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/4/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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—36

    36—152

    58—76

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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

    4

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    373

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    35

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU046390
    E—5 to 36 centimeters (2.0 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 fine roots; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU046391
    Bt1—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) very gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU046392
    2Btx—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU046393
    3Bt2—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) very cobbly clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU046394
    3Bt3—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) very cobbly clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine gray (10YR 5/1) iron depletions and 10 percent fine pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU046395