IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fourche
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1994MO223042M
  • User Pedon ID: 1994MO223042
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9422342
  • 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: 37.2080574
  • Std. Longitude: -90.5550003
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T29N
  • Range: R4E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet S and 800 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 1,600 feet south and 800 feet west of the northeast corner sec. 12, T. 29 N., R. 4 E.
  • Map Unit: 73147—Fourche silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO223—Wayne
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • 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 Glossic Paleudalfs
  • 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 - Fourche
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fourche
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Glossaquic Paleudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/21/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 48 Cation Exc. to Clay x100


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: basin-floor remnant
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/21/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2198-291
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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—20

    20—152

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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

    3

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    149

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    300

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU051380
    Bt1—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU051381. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 133405; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 133405
    Bt2—48 to 97 centimeters (18.9 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU051382. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 133406; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 133406
    Bt3—97 to 119 centimeters (38.2 to 46.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent prominent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt coats and 25 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 5 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU051383. patchy - phpvsfiid 133407; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 133408; patchy - phpvsfiid 133407; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 133408
    2Bt4—119 to 135 centimeters (46.9 to 53.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent prominent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt coats and 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU051384. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 133410; patchy - phpvsfiid 133409; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 133410; patchy - phpvsfiid 133409
    2Bt5—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU051385. patchy - phpvsfiid 207522; patchy - phpvsfiid 207522