IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sonsac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO057039M
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO057039
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9205739
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 37.4754056
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8476611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R27W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet N and 2300 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 500 ft. N and 2300 ft. west of southeast corner sec. 25T. 32 N., r. 27 W.
  • Map Unit: 70014—Moko-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. D. Chorice and Charles Harwood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic 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 - Sonsac
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moko
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/1992
  • 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 and/or solid rock derived from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/5/1992 (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

    lithic contact

    0—25

    25—79

    79—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

    14

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    293

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    180

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044637
    BA—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) very cobbly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044638
    2Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) very cobbly silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU044639
    2Bt2—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) extremely cobbly clay; moderate fine angular blocky parts to weak fine structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU044640
    2R—79 centimeters (31.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.