IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fourche
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1993MO223007M
  • User Pedon ID: 1993MO223007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9322307
  • 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: 37.1981773
  • Std. Longitude: -90.5390396
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 73147—Fourche silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes24C—Fourche silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO223—Wayne
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO223—Wayne County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37090-B5—Patterson, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fragiaquic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fourche
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fourche
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 45 Cation Exc. to Clay x100


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed over slope alluvium derived from igneous and sedimentary rock over residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: basin-floor remnant
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2198-291
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    33—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

    4

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    126

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU016294
    BE—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU016295
    Bt—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU016296
    2Btx1—56 to 114 centimeters (22.0 to 44.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; 30 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) medium prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct iron stains throughout; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; 20 percent brittleness of horizon; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU016297
    3Btx2—114 to 203 centimeters (44.9 to 79.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) gravelly clay; 10 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) medium prominent mottles; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine iron-manganese masses throughout; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; 20 percent brittleness of horizon; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU016298