IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arkana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1994MO203021M
  • User Pedon ID: 1994MO203021M
  • User Site Association ID: 8570
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - shannon-2
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9461321
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32109
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.2294833
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3543694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO203—Shannon
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO203—Shannon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37091-B3—Eminence, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SV, JW, LT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkana
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkana
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • Field Measured Properties: 52 Cation exchange capacity to clay ratio


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from dolomite and/or slope alluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/20/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 14
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    71 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—71

    71—

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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

    27

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    250

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    90

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU051755
    2AB—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); 80 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very gravelly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 12 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU051756. patchy - phpvsfiid 164898; patchy - phpvsfiid 164898
    2Bt1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.0 very fine and fine tubular and 2.0 fine vesicular pores; 12 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 12 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 12 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU051757. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 164845; patchy - phpvsfiid 164843; patchy - phpvsfiid 164844; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 164845; patchy - phpvsfiid 164843; patchy - phpvsfiid 164844
    2Bt2—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.1 fine roots; 2.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU051758. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 164900; patchy - phpvsfiid 164899; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 164900; patchy - phpvsfiid 164899
    2R—71 centimeters (28.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.