IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crackerneck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1996MO119081M
  • User Pedon ID: 1996MO119081
  • User Site Association ID: 8442
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 96-08
  • Transect Stop Number - 5
  • Transect Interval - 250.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9611943
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 36.7449611
  • Std. Longitude: -94.5671472
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 70068—Bendavis-Jollymill-Crackerneck complex, karst, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO119—McDonald
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO119—McDonald County, Missouri
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAW, JES, KLG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, active, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudults
  • 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 - Crackerneck
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crackerneck
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • 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: 7/9/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5D
  • 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

    0—10

    38—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

    1

    337

    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); 85 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 15 percent brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 60.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 15.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013164
    BE—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); 25 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 75 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 45.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 20.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013165
    Bt1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) extremely gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 10.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 2 percent faint light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1) skeletans on faces of peds and in pores and 40 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats on faces of peds and in pores; 25 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 60 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU013166. 30% Brittleness; continuous - phpvsfiid 154064; patchy - phpvsfiid 154065; continuous - phpvsfiid 159246; continuous - phpvsfiid 154064; patchy - phpvsfiid 154065; continuous - phpvsfiid 159246
    2Bt2—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) extremely stony loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots between peds; 7.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent prominent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) skeletans on faces of peds and in pores and 20 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 5/8) clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 25 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume subrounded 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU013167. continuous - phpvsfiid 154066; patchy - phpvsfiid 154067; continuous - phpvsfiid 154066; patchy - phpvsfiid 154067
    3Bt3—76 to 117 centimeters (29.9 to 46.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) extremely cobbly clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 5/8) clay films on faces of peds and 5 percent prominent pale brown (10YR 6/3) skeletans on faces of peds and 60 percent prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 47 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU013168. patchy - phpvsfiid 154032; continuous - phpvsfiid 154068; patchy - phpvsfiid 159260; patchy - phpvsfiid 154032; continuous - phpvsfiid 154068; patchy - phpvsfiid 159260
    3Bt4—117 to 203 centimeters (46.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) extremely gravelly silty clay loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2) skeletans on faces of peds and in pores and 20 percent prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) clay films on faces of peds and 40 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) clay films on faces of peds; 58 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU013169. continuous - phpvsfiid 154206; patchy - phpvsfiid 154207; patchy - phpvsfiid 154208; continuous - phpvsfiid 154206; patchy - phpvsfiid 154207; patchy - phpvsfiid 154208