IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Jerktail
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1996MO091167M
  • User Pedon ID: 1996MO091167M
  • User Site Association ID: 8000
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 9
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9609155
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34466
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 36.8030722
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7126806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 73240—Jerktail silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO091—Howell
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO091—Howell County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SVV, SFP, MJM, RDR
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed Aquic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Jerktail
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jerktail
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium over residuum
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/6/1996 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—10

    10—152

    46—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

    4

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    308

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 7.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 7.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 20 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055337
    Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 7.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organic stains throughout and 35 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films throughout; 2 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055338. continuous - phpvsfiid 1766853; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1766852; continuous - phpvsfiid 1766853; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1766852
    Bt2—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); 80 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.9 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055339. continuous - phpvsfiid 1766854; continuous - phpvsfiid 1766854
    2Bt3—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay; 2 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine prominent spherical mottles; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 very fine roots throughout; 0.9 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055340. continuous - phpvsfiid 1766858; continuous - phpvsfiid 1766858
    2Bt4—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 very fine roots throughout; 0.9 fine tubular pores; 15 percent prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055341. continuous - phpvsfiid 1766851; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1766850; continuous - phpvsfiid 1766851; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1766850
    2Bt5—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 very fine roots throughout; 0.9 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent distinct pressure faces; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055342. continuous - phpvsfiid 1766855; continuous - phpvsfiid 1766855
    2Bt6—122 to 173 centimeters (48.0 to 68.1 inches); 40 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face and 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) broken face and 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to strong very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU055343. continuous - phpvsfiid 1766857; continuous - phpvsfiid 1766857