IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gatewood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167168M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167168
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 45936
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116734
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 37.6271889
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5315389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T33N
  • Range: R24W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 2400 feet E and 700 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 2400 feet east and 700 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 2, T. 33 N., R. 24 W., Bright farm.
  • Map Unit: 73002—Ocie-Gatewood complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Larry E. Kickler, John Bowers, and Richard E. McBee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Gatewood
  • PSC - 38 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gatewood
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/1991
  • 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 dolomite and/or solid rock derived from dolomite
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/6/1991 (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

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    10—38

    38—69

    69—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

    6

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    317

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    300

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015168
    E—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) extremely gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU015169
    2Bt—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very gravelly clay; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine brown (10YR 5/3) iron depletions; 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015170
    2R—69 centimeters (27.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.