IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Basehor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167164M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167164
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116726
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.4596944
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5019444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R23W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 2560 feet E and 2035 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 2560 feet east and 2035 feet north of the southwest corner of sec. 31, T. 32 N., R. 23 W., Girl Scout Camp.
  • Map Unit: 15001—Basehor fine sandy loam, rocky, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Bowers, Richard L. Henderson, and Richard E. McBee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Basehor
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Basehor
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone and/or solid rock derived from sandstone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/5/1991 (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

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—46

    48—203

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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

    33

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    320

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    275

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010380
    Bw1—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010381
    Bw2—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010382
    R—46 centimeters (18.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.