IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Barco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO057055
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO057055
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9205755
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33296
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 37.5253528
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0325889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R28W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1020 feet N and 2400 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 1020 ft north and 2400 feet east of the southwest corner of section 8, T. 32 N., R. 28 W.
  • Map Unit: 40005—Sylvania loam, 5 to 15 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-CLI—Clinton, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-E1—Jerico Springs, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. D. Chorice and Charles Harwood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Typic Haplohumults
  • 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 - Barco
  • PSC - 36 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/2020
  • Classifier - J.R. Perkins
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Barco
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Humic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 36 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • Field Measured Properties: 28 percent of pscs clay and 27.6 percent of pscs gravel and 46 percent of pscs sand


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy slope alluvium derived from sandstone over sandy and clayey slope alluvium derived from sandstone and shale over fine-loamy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 97cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/6/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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, lithic

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    97 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    0—36

    36—97

    53—84

    84—97

    97—

    —36—

    —61—

    —31—

    —13—

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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

    2

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    310

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    270

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; 54 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 11 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; many (6.0) very fine roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044699
    AB—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; 54 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 12 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; very friable; many (6.0) very fine roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044700
    Bt1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly fine sandy loam; 56 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout and common (4.0) fine roots throughout; 26 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-153-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU044701. continuous - phpvsfiid 1632816; continuous - phpvsfiid 1632816
    2Bt2—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly sandy clay; 46 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 36 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-163-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU044702. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1632817; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1632817
    3Bt3—84 to 97 centimeters (33.1 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly sandy clay loam; 69 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 75-163-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044703. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1632815; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1632815
    3R—97 to 200 centimeters (38.2 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.