IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boskydell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1996MO119046M
  • User Pedon ID: 1996MO119046
  • User Site Association ID: 8435
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 96-01
  • Transect Stop Number - 8
  • Transect Interval - 120.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9611908
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 36.5398333
  • Std. Longitude: -94.2504222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 73349—Boskydell very gravelly silty clay loam, 8 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO119—McDonald
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO119—McDonald County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KLG and JAW
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Boskydell
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boskydell
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/17/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium over residuum
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: valley side
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/17/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

    0—18

    18—203

    43—203

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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

    11

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    354

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 11.0 very fine to coarse roots and 11.0 very coarse roots; 6.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 50 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055609
    Bt1—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very gravelly clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 11.0 very fine and fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 4.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 20 percent faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) masses of dark accumulation throughout and 5 percent fine and medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron concretions throughout; 55 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055610. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154361; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154361
    Bt2—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) extremely gravelly clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 11.0 very fine and fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent fine spherical black (10YR 2/1) masses of dark accumulation throughout and 30 percent fine and medium spherical strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron concretions throughout and 30 percent fine irregular grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay depletions between peds; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055611. continuous - phpvsfiid 154362; continuous - phpvsfiid 154362
    2Bt3—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) gravelly silty clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 11.0 very fine and fine roots and 4.0 medium roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1) clay films on faces of peds and 20 percent faint light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent fine spherical black (10YR 2/1) masses of dark accumulation throughout and 10 percent fine and medium spherical strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron concretions throughout and 30 percent fine irregular grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay depletions between peds; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055612. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154363; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154363
    2Bt4—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) very gravelly silty clay; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 4.0 very fine and fine roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent faint gray (2.5Y 5/1) clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) masses of dark accumulation throughout and 10 percent fine and medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron concretions throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055613. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159324; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159331; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159324; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159331
    2Bt5—89 to 203 centimeters (35.0 to 79.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) very gravelly silty clay; 20 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent prominent light gray (5Y 7/1) silt coats on faces of peds and 20 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1) clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent faint light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay films on faces of peds; 7 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) masses of dark accumulation throughout and 30 percent fine and medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 40 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # MU055614. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159332; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159333; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159334; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159332; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159333; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159334