IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Useful
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO151013
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO151013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9215108
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33603
  • 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: 38.3198333
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6692778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Section: 2
  • Location Description: Isgrigg property. 850 feet north and 1540 feet west of SE cor. sec. 2, T41N, R7W.; USGS Belle quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: 73091—Useful silt loam, 8 to 15 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO151—Osage
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO151—Osage County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Davis Melvin Simmons
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Useful (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bucklick
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 41
  • 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—69

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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

    12

    —

    —

    259

    —

    90

    991

    —

    —

    12.8

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    —

    13.9

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 8.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU045828
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU045829. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148537; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148537
    Bt2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU045830. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148538; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148538
    Bt3—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 1.0 very fine vesicular pores; 30 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU045831. few chert pebbles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148539; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148539
    2Bt4—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 0.8 very fine vesicular pores; 60 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses throughout; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU045832. continuous - phpvsfiid 148540; continuous - phpvsfiid 148540
    2Bt5—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 60 percent prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU045833. continuous - phpvsfiid 148541; continuous - phpvsfiid 148541
    2Bt/Cr—114 to 135 centimeters (44.9 to 53.1 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2) interior and olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.3 very fine roots between peds; 20 percent prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU045834. Cr material consists of 60% weathered dolomite gravels and cobbles (20% gravel and 40% cobble).; continuous - phpvsfiid 148542; continuous - phpvsfiid 148542
    R—135 centimeters (53.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.