IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eldorado
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1993MO097001
  • User Pedon ID: 1993MO097001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1993MO097001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 003
  • Transect Stop Number - 6
  • Transect Interval - 400.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9309701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33206
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 37.2513889
  • Std. Longitude: -94.5486111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T29N
  • Range: R33W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 2900 feet S 1600 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: NE1/4 NW1/4 SE1/4 SEC 8, T29N R33W (2900 ft. South 1600 ft. West from NE corner Sec8)
  • Map Unit: 40016—Eldorado very gravelly silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO097—Jasper
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO097—Jasper County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alan Peer, Camille Graves, Kevin Hess
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, thermic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eldorado
  • PSC - 28 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Riverton
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: percent of Vol of rock fragments - A hor. and percent of Vol of rock fragments - B hor.


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or alluvium and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: fluvial terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/23/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 11
  • 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: wind and water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—140

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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

    15

    21

    10.7

    264

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    0

    991

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine high-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047788; moist when described;
    Ap2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine high-continuity tubular pores; 35 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047789; moist when described;
    Bt1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior very gravelly loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine high-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 50 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU047790; moist when described;. patchy - phpvsfiid 153874; patchy - phpvsfiid 153874
    Bt2—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior extremely gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine high-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 60 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU047791; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 153875; continuous - phpvsfiid 153875
    Bt3—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine high-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), moist, skeletans over cutans on vertical faces of peds; 74 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU047792; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 153876; continuous - phpvsfiid 153877; continuous - phpvsfiid 153876; continuous - phpvsfiid 153877
    Bt4—91 to 99 centimeters (35.8 to 39.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume rounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 70 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047793; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 153942; continuous - phpvsfiid 153942
    2Bt5—99 to 109 centimeters (39.0 to 42.9 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) interior very cobbly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 55 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 35 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047794; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 153943; continuous - phpvsfiid 153943
    2Bt6—109 to 140 centimeters (42.9 to 55.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) interior extremely cobbly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 60 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU047795; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 149848; continuous - phpvsfiid 149848