IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Townhole
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO119129M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO119129
  • User Site Association ID: 8459
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 97-01
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Transect Interval - 195.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9711901
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 36.6698761
  • Std. Longitude: -94.4447174
  • 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: MDO,KLG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Townhole
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Townhole
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/4/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6C
  • 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—23

    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

    6

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    287

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    54

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) gravelly silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 35.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; 25.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU057913
    A—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) gravelly silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 25.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 25.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 17 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU057914
    BA—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 23.0 very fine to medium interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU057915
    Bt1—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 15.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 1 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; 45 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU057916. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154167; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154167
    2Bt2—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) extremely gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 5 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds and 10 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) skeletans throughout; 65 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU057917. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154261; patchy - phpvsfiid 159296; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154261; patchy - phpvsfiid 159296
    2Bt3—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); 75 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 25 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) very gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 15.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 8 percent distinct gray (5YR 6/1) skeletans throughout and 25 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds; 4 percent fine and medium irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses throughout; 45 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU057918. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159264; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159297; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159264; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159297
    3Bt4—127 to 175 centimeters (50.0 to 68.9 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) skeletans on faces of peds and in pores and 35 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine and medium irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses throughout; 3 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU057919. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154056; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154837; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154056; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154837
    3Bt5—175 to 203 centimeters (68.9 to 79.9 inches); 70 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) extremely gravelly silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) skeletans on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 70 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # MU057920. 2% of chert is tripolitic.; continuous - phpvsfiid 154057; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154058; continuous - phpvsfiid 154057; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154058