IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liberal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167176M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167176
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116736
  • 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: 37.7037222
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3254250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T34N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 2600 feet N and 2100 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 2600 feet north and 2100 feet west of the southeast corner of sec. 3, T. 34 N., R. 22 W., Eldon Warren Farm.
  • Map Unit: 40002—Liberal 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, John Bowers and Richard E. McBee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Aquollic 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 - Liberal
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Liberal
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from shale and siltstone and/or residuum weathered from shale and siltstone and/or solid rock derived from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: shale and siltstone
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/7/1991 (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

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—150

    150—157

    157—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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    100

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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 fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015172
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015173
    Bt2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions and 10 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015174
    Bt3—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015175
    Bt4—79 to 150 centimeters (31.1 to 59.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015176
    Cr—150 to 157 centimeters (59.1 to 61.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) weathered bedrock; massive; friable; 50 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU015177
    R—157 centimeters (61.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.