IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Creldon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO057048M
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO057048
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9205748
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.3840111
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0593278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R28W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet S and 800 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 2200 feet south and 800 feet east of the northwest corner of sec. 31, T. 31 N., R. 28 W.
  • Map Unit: 70006—Creldon silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Aldrich and Lewis Graves
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Mollic Fragiudalfs
  • 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 - Creldon
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Creldon
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or slope alluvium and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—25

    25—152

    76—107

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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

    1

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    317

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular parts to weak thin platy structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044676
    Bt1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044677
    Bt2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine dark red (2.5YR 3/6) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU044678
    2Btx—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and red (2.5YR 4/8) extremely gravelly clay loam; weak fine platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine and medium dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU044679
    3Bt3—107 to 130 centimeters (42.1 to 51.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) very gravelly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine and medium dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU044680
    3Bt4—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and yellow (10YR 7/8) cobbly clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine and medium dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) iron depletions; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU044681