IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alred
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1996MO203021M
  • User Pedon ID: 1996MO203021M
  • User Site Association ID: 8628
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 11
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9661321
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31695
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.3797833
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3465056
  • 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-D3—Loggers Lake, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MS,BM,LT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal over clayey, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alred
  • PSC - 58 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/28/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ventris
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Albaquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 58 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/4/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 50 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 23 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol)


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from dolomite slope alluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/4/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4
  • 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

    strongly contrasting particle size class

    0—58

    58—196

    91—

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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

    14

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    259

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    345

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 7.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU056793
    E1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 7.0 coarse tubular pores; 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) organic stains on faces of peds; 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU056794
    E2—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 7.0 fine tubular and 7.0 coarse tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) organic stains on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/3) silt coats on faces of peds; 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU056795
    E3—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 7.0 fine tubular and 7.0 coarse tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/3) silt coats on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU056796
    Bt1—58 to 91 centimeters (22.8 to 35.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 7.0 fine tubular and 7.0 coarse tubular pores; 15 percent distinct light brown (7.5YR 6/4) clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/8) clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU056797
    2Bt2—91 to 119 centimeters (35.8 to 46.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/8) clay films on rock fragments; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU056798
    2Bt3—119 to 142 centimeters (46.9 to 55.9 inches); 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 0.9 medium tubular and 0.9 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4) organic stains on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on rock fragments and 15 percent distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU056799
    2Bt4—142 to 165 centimeters (55.9 to 65.0 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 40 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine roots; 0.9 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) organic stains on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU056800
    2Bt5—165 to 196 centimeters (65.0 to 77.2 inches); fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU64603. Sampled with auger for pH; lots of M stains in this horizon.