IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Captina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO203008M
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO203008M
  • User Site Association ID: 8589Captina
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - shannon-61C1
  • Transect Stop Number - 5
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9261308
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31351
  • Print Date: 1/28/2025

    • 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: 37.2124389
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4719278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T29N
  • Range: R5W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet N and 400 feet W of the SE corner
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO203—Shannon
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO203—Shannon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37091-B4—Alley Spring, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JDC, SVV, JB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, active, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Captina
  • PSC - 18 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lebanon
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 18 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/1992
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • Field Measured Properties: 38 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 0 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol) and 1 Percent fine sand to 3 IN. in the control section (wt) and 48 Cation exchange capacity to clay ratio


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or pedisediment and/or residuum
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 13
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    bedrock, lithic

    noncoherent

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    56 - 89

    148 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    lithic contact

    6—18

    18—148

    56—89

    148—

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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

    4

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    341

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    90

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047155
    E—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047156
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 medium tubular pores; 30 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047157
    Bt2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 medium tubular pores; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047158
    2Btx—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) gravelly silt loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; 0.9 fine roots; 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 30 percent prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU047159
    3Bt3—89 to 138 centimeters (35.0 to 54.3 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) very gravelly clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 1.0 medium tubular pores; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU047160
    3Bt4—138 to 148 centimeters (54.3 to 58.3 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) extremely gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, clay films; 80 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU64710
    3R—148 centimeters (58.3 inches); bedrock; fragments.