IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fourche
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1993MO223008M
  • User Pedon ID: 1993MO223008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9322308
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 37.2017403
  • Std. Longitude: -90.5501938
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T29N
  • Range: R5E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet E and 4000 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 800 ft. E and 4000 ft. S from the MW courner of sec. 7, T. 29 N., R. 5 E.
  • 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: DWH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty over clayey, 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 - 18 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fourche
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/8/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 46 Cation Exc. to Clay x100


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over slope alluvium
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/8/1993 (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—18

    18—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

    8

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    —

    143

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    260

    1118

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    Clearwater Dam

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU049204
    Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 1.0 very fine to medium roots; 15 percent faint clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU049205
    Bt2—30 to 71 centimeters (11.8 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 1.0 very fine to medium roots; 35 percent faint clay films; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU049206
    2Btx—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium and coarse prominent mottles; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films and 30 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) iron stains on faces of peds and in pores; 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU049207
    3Bt3—89 to 175 centimeters (35.0 to 68.9 inches); 50 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium and coarse prominent mottles; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU049208
    3Bt4—175 to 203 centimeters (68.9 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films; 20 percent fine iron-manganese masses throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU049209