IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Doniphan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO203012M
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO203012M
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9261312
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 27029
  • 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: 37.2132611
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3826389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T29N
  • Range: R4W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 2900 feet N and 900 feet W of the SE corner
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO203—Shannon
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO613—Shannon County, Missouri, North & West PartsMO203—Shannon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37091-B4—Alley Spring, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SVV, JB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • 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 - Doniphan
  • PSC - 34 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Doniphan
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 34 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1992
  • 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: 29 Cation exchange capacity to clay ratio


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum and/or slope alluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 13
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    3—10

    28—152

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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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    305

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    AE—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013692
    BE—16 to 34 centimeters (6.3 to 13.4 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013693
    2Bt1—34 to 82 centimeters (13.4 to 32.3 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine roots; 7.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013694
    2Bt2—82 to 141 centimeters (32.3 to 55.5 inches); 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) cobbly clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU013695
    2Bt3—141 to 158 centimeters (55.5 to 62.2 inches); 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 70 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU013696