IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Useful
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO125013M
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO125013
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 1
  • Transect Stop Number - 6
  • Transect Interval - 25.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9512513
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 38.0563440
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8233431
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Spring Creek Farms property
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO125—Maries
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Davis Brad Berhorst Wyn Kelley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Useful
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed and/or residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: divide
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 14C
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—104

    104—0

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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

    —

    —

    271

    —

    45

    991

    —

    —

    12.8

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    —

    13.9

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU053577. 5% mixing of lower horizon.
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 5.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU053578. 1% tubular krotovina that is 0.25 inches wide.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145310; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145310
    Bt2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 4.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 50 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU053579. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145311; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145311
    2Btx1—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 1.0 very fine vesicular pores; 50 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU053580. moderate brittleness expressed in red part of matrix.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145312; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145312
    2Btx2—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior extremely gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; 0.6 very fine vesicular pores; 50 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses between peds and 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU053581. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145313; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145313
    3Bt3—86 to 97 centimeters (33.9 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior very gravelly silty clay loam; 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine prominent irregular mottles; weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; 0.6 very fine vesicular pores; 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses throughout; 10 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 35 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU053582. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145314; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145314
    3Bt4—97 to 104 centimeters (38.2 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine vesicular pores; 30 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on rock fragments and 50 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses throughout and 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 10 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU053583. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145315; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145316; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145315; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 145316
    3R—104 centimeters (40.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.