IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sylvania
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO057045
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO057045
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9205745
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 27335
  • Print Date: 5/3/2025

    • 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: 37.4778056
  • Std. Longitude: -93.9950306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R28W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet S and 2400 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 200 feet south and 2400 ft. west of the northeast corner of section 34, T. 32 N., R. 28 W.
  • Map Unit: 40005—Sylvania loam, 5 to 15 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: Max Aldrich and Charles Harwood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, thermic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sylvania
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Liberal
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/29/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/29/1992 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—25

    25—117

    117—132

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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

    11

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    323

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    95

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy clay loam; strong fine granular structure; very friable; 0.8 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015765
    A2—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.8 fine roots; 10 percent fine brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015766
    2Bt1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine dark red (2.5YR 3/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015767
    2Bt2—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) clay; weak fine angular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine dark red (2.5YR 3/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015768
    2Bt3—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine red (10R 4/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine and medium brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015769
    2Bt4—97 to 117 centimeters (38.2 to 46.1 inches); light gray (5Y 7/1) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine red (10R 4/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015770
    2Cr—117 to 132 centimeters (46.1 to 52.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # MU015771