IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sylvania
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO039131M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO039131
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9703910
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 37.8048377
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8450500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T35N
  • Range: R26W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet E and 690 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 1100 feet east and 690 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 18, T. 35 N., R. 26 W Austin
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO039—Cedar
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO039—Cedar County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Burney and Richard McBee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Haplohumults
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sylvania
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Typic Haplohumults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: sandstone and shale
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/29/1997 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—25

    25—71

    107—132

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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

    7

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    247

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    300

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056902
    A—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; gravelly clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056903
    2Bt1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine vesicular and tubular pores; prominent clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056904. continuous - phpvsfiid 155579; continuous - phpvsfiid 155579
    2Bt2—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and reddish brown (5YR 5/3) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine vesicular and tubular pores; distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056905. continuous - phpvsfiid 155580; continuous - phpvsfiid 155580
    2Bt3—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) silty clay; weak thin platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine vesicular and tubular pores; prominent clay films on faces of peds; reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056906. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 155581; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 155581
    2BC—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) channery silty clay; weak thin platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; faint clay films on faces of peds; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056907. patchy - phpvsfiid 155582; patchy - phpvsfiid 155582
    2Cr—107 to 132 centimeters (42.1 to 52.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments.