IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Townhole
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1996MO119053M
  • User Pedon ID: 1996MO119053
  • User Site Association ID: 8437
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 96-03
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Transect Interval - 528.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9611915
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 36.7444694
  • Std. Longitude: -94.1669833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 71256—Townhole-Aslinger complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO119—McDonald
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO119—McDonald County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAW, JSE, & KLG.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Townhole
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crackerneck
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: structural bench
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/2/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 8A
  • 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

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

    0—25

    25—203

    58—89

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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

    2

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    332

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 11.0 very fine and fine roots; 10.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 1 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013158. patchy - phpvsfiid 159283; patchy - phpvsfiid 159283
    Bt1—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 10 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 11.0 very fine and fine roots; 5.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 4 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic stains on faces of peds and in pores and 5 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds; 8 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU013159. patchy - phpvsfiid 159284; patchy - phpvsfiid 159285; patchy - phpvsfiid 159284; patchy - phpvsfiid 159285
    Bt2—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); 45 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 45 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) and 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3) gravelly silty clay loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 11.0 very fine and fine roots; 1.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 2 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt coats on faces of peds and in pores and 5 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 15 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/8) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 18 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU013160. patchy - phpvsfiid 154137; patchy - phpvsfiid 154138; patchy - phpvsfiid 154139; patchy - phpvsfiid 154137; patchy - phpvsfiid 154138; patchy - phpvsfiid 154139
    2Bt2—58 to 89 centimeters (22.8 to 35.0 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) extremely gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 2.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 10 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 20 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 15 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 70 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU013161. 25 percent brittleness; patchy - phpvsfiid 154140; patchy - phpvsfiid 154147; patchy - phpvsfiid 159273; patchy - phpvsfiid 154140; patchy - phpvsfiid 154147; patchy - phpvsfiid 159273
    2Bt4—89 to 142 centimeters (35.0 to 55.9 inches); 80 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely gravelly clay; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 40 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/8) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent fine spherical black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses between peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 75 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013162. patchy - phpvsfiid 154189; patchy - phpvsfiid 154189
    3Bt5—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) extremely gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 50 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine spherical black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses between peds; 15 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 70 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments. Lab sample # MU013163. patchy - phpvsfiid 154198; patchy - phpvsfiid 154198