IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gatewood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1993MO161030M
  • User Pedon ID: 1993MO161030
  • User Site Association ID: 7890
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T1493
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9316130
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 38.0178346
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7962593
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T38N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1950 feet E and 1100 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 1950'E & 1100'S of NW cor S.15, T.38N, R.8W.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO161—Phelps
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO161—Phelps County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GB, SL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gatewood
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: cherty limestone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: C1
  • 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

    0—23

    10—94

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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

    18

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    287

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    170

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; extremely gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine to coarse roots; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU048723
    E—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) extremely gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 5 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU048724
    2Bt1—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly clay; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine to medium roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 51 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU048725
    2Bt2—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly clay; weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 51 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU048726
    2BC—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely gravelly silty clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 very fine to medium roots; 6 percent distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MU048727. Base saturation sampled at 36-37 inches. Coarse fragments are decomposing (soft & oriented).
    2R—94 centimeters (37.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Moderately hard dolomitic bedrock with fractures about 6 inches apart.