IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Roselle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1993MO123030M
  • User Pedon ID: 1993MO123030M
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9312330
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31326
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 37.6092491
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4967499
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T34N
  • Range: R5E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet S and 500 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 1600 ft. S and 500 ft. E of the NW corner of sec. 33, T. 34 N., R. 5 E.
  • Map Unit: 77008—Hassler silt loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes, stony48D—Hassler silt loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes, stony
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO123—Madison
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO123—Madison County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37090-E4—Rhodes Mountain, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MLC, CGM and KEB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludults
  • 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 - Roselle
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Roselle
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/28/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 45 Cation exchange capacity to clay ratio


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from igneous rock over residuum weathered from igneous rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: intermontane basin
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/28/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: B-2
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    165 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—102

    165—

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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

    10

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    232

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    320

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine and fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU048339
    EB—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU048340
    Bt1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 35 percent faint clay films; 1 percent medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) worm casts; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU048341
    2Bt2—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 75 percent faint clay films; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU048342. Roots are concentrated and intertwined between prism faces.
    2Bt3—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 75 percent distinct clay films; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU048343. Roots were concentrated and intertwined between prism faces; a few of the granite pebbles were weathered and decomposing.
    2Bt4—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) cobbly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct clay films; 10 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU048344. Many of the pebbles broke up while being sieved.
    2BC—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) cobbly coarse sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent distinct clay films; 10 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU048345. Colors are interminged in pockets and with a few discontinuous bands; most of the granite pebbles broke up while being sieved.
    2C—130 to 165 centimeters (51.2 to 65.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) coarse sandy loam; massive; firm; 1 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU048346. Most of the granitic material broke up while being sieved.
    2R—165 centimeters (65.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.