IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parsons
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO039057M
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO039057
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9503920
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.5925633
  • Std. Longitude: -93.9332608
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T33N
  • Range: R27W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1160 feet W and 250 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 1160 feet west and 250 feet north of the southwest corner of sec. 18, T 33 N., R. 27 W.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO039—Cedar
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO039—Cedar County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Burney
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Parsons
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; 1 percent fine masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU052461
    A—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU052462
    E—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate thin platy parts to weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 5 percent fine and medium masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent fine and medium iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU052463
    Btg1—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent medium red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU052464
    Btg2—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU052465
    Btg3—109 to 178 centimeters (42.9 to 70.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; 60 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine iron-manganese masses and 40 percent medium and coarse dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU052466
    Btg4—178 to 218 centimeters (70.1 to 85.8 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2) and gray (10YR 5/1) clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; 40 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) coats and 60 percent distinct clay films; 45 percent medium and coarse yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU052467