IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sonsac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1993MO057022M
  • User Pedon ID: 1993MO057022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9305713
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 37.4730000
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8046583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R26W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 275 feet S and 350 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 275 ft. south and 350 ft. west of norhteast corner sec. 32, T. 32 N., R 26 W. Corps
  • Map Unit: 70044—Sonsac-Moko complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes, rocky
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Burney and Richard L. Henderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sonsac
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sonsac
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from cherty limestone and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone and/or solid rock derived from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/25/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—76

    76—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

    17

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    277

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    90

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium and coarse roots and 10.0 fine roots; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047485
    2Bt1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very gravelly clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 60 percent distinct organic stains on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU047486
    2Bt2—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) extremely gravelly clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU047487
    2Bt3—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) very flaggy clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 15 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU047488
    2R—76 centimeters (29.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.