IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alsup
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO167270M
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO167270
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9216705
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 37.5747500
  • Std. Longitude: -93.6131444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T33N
  • Range: R24W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet N and 800 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 700 feet north and 800 feet east of the southwest corner of section 19, T. 33 N., R. 24 W., High Point Corp Ground.
  • Map Unit: 70004—Alsup silt loam, 15 to 35 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard L. Henderson and John Bowers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Alsup
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alsup
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/20/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from shale and siltstone and/or residuum weathered from shale and siltstone and/or solid rock derived from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: shale and siltstone
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/20/1992 (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

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    15—84

    84—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

    18

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    271

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU046410
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU046411
    2Bt1—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots; 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU046412
    2Bt2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/4) channery silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU046413
    2Bt3—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/4) very channery silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 50 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU046414
    2Cr—84 to 203 centimeters (33.1 to 79.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments.