IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arkana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO203029M
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO203029M
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1995MO203029M
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9561329
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31881
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 37.1385000
  • Std. Longitude: -91.0668111
  • 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-B1—Exchange, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DMM, RLT, SAV, JW
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkana
  • PSC - 26 to 65 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 - 26 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/13/1995
  • 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: 54 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 Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 16
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FRAM2

    QUST

    ULMUS

    Fraxinus americana

    Quercus stellata

    Ulmus

    white ash

    post oak

    elm

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    65 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    lithic contact

    3—10

    10—65

    23—65

    65—

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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

    18

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    226

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    115

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly silt loam; strong fine granular structure; very friable; 2.0 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots and 7.0 fine roots; 7.0 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU054433
    AB—13 to 26 centimeters (5.1 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.9 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 7.0 fine interstitial and tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 45 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU054434
    2Bt1—26 to 44 centimeters (10.2 to 17.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 0.9 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 34 percent faint black (N 2/0), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU054435
    2Bt2—44 to 65 centimeters (17.3 to 25.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay; strong very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 0.9 fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 10 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, nonintersecting slickensides throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU054436
    2R—65 centimeters (25.6 inches); bedrock; fragments. Dolomite bedrock!!