IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nixa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO209102M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO209102
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9120918
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 36.7374678
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4479998
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T24N
  • Range: R23W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 850 feet E and 1650 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 850 feet east and 1650 feet north of the southwest corner of section 32, T. 24 N., R. 23 W.
  • Map Unit: 73117—Clarksville-Scholten-Hailey complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO209—Stone
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO209—Stone County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Scott Eversoll and Ken L. Gregg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, active, mesic Glossic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nixa
  • PSC - 25 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nixa
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: karstland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/8/1991 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    fragipan

    0—23

    23—53

    53—79

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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

    15

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    —

    398

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    315

    0

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) very gravelly silt; weak fine granular structure; friable; 25.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 45 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU043767
    E—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very gravelly silt; weak fine granular structure; friable; 4.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 55 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU043768
    B/E—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); 20 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely gravelly silt; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 60 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU043769
    Bw—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) extremely gravelly silt; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 75 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU043770
    2Btx—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); 35 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 5 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) extremely gravelly silt loam; massive; hard; brittle; 85 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU043771
    2Bt—79 to 152 centimeters (31.1 to 59.8 inches); 35 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and 65 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) extremely gravelly clay; strong coarse angular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds and 40 percent distinct dark red (10R 3/6) clay films on faces of peds; 60 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU043772. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 155084; patchy - phpvsfiid 155085; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 155084; patchy - phpvsfiid 155085