IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sylvania
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO057056
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO057056
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9205756
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26509
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025
  • 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: 37.5256778
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0316306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R28W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet N and 2700 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 1100 ft north and 2700 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: Max Aldrich and Charles Harwood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Oxyaquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sylvania
  • PSC - 66 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2020
  • Classifier - J.R. Perkins
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Barco
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Humic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 41 to 91 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: 39.4 percent of pscs clay and 15 percent of pscs gravel and 16.5 percent of pscs sand


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy slope alluvium derived from sandstone over fine-loamy slope alluvium derived from sandstone and shale over clayey residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 127cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/7/1992 (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

    strongly coherent

    127 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    lithologic discontinuity

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    0—41

    53—127

    53—

    66—91

    91—127

    91—

    127—

    —41—

    —74—

    —-

    —25—

    —36—

    —-

    —-

    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

    5

    309.4

    180

    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; 33 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 21 percent clay; strong very fine granular, and strong fine granular structure; very friable; many (6.0) medium roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010089
    A2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; loam; 34 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 19 percent clay; strong very fine granular, and strong fine granular structure; friable; common (4.0) medium roots throughout and common (4.0) fine roots throughout; 5 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010090
    BA—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; 35 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; common (4.0) fine roots throughout; 5 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010091
    Bt1—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 38 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 20 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; common (4.0) fine roots throughout; 26 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010092. continuous - phpvsfiid 1837912; continuous - phpvsfiid 1837912
    2Bt2—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 54 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 17 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 26 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent irregular iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium prominent irregular iron-manganese masses and 15 percent fine reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 40 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010093. continuous - phpvsfiid 1837915; continuous - phpvsfiid 1837915
    2Bt3—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) gravelly clay loam; 28 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 39 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 26 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine prominent red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU010094. continuous - phpvsfiid 1837916; continuous - phpvsfiid 1837916
    3BC—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); 51 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) and 49 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/1) clay; 7 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 54 percent clay; moderate thick platy parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots throughout; 15 percent fine prominent yellow (10YR 7/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010095
    4R—127 centimeters (50.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.