IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Useful
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO125001M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO125001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 6D-2
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Transect Interval - 40.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9712501
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 38.1409471
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8392164
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Bufalo property
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO125—Maries
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Davis Brad Berhorst Wyn Kelley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Useful
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/28/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/28/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9C
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—130

    130—0

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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

    13

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    241

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    25

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 4.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU058084. 10YR(5/4) mixing from underlying Bt (5%).
    Bt1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 8.0 very fine to medium roots between peds; 4.0 very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU058085. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148666; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148666
    Bt2—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 5.0 very fine to medium roots between peds; 1.0 very fine vesicular pores; 25 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU058086. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148667; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148667
    Bt3—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 very fine to medium roots between peds; 3.0 very fine vesicular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU058087. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148668; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148668
    Bt4—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face clay; 2 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint irregular mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 1.0 very fine vesicular pores; 40 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds; 3 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU058088. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148669; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148669
    2Bt5—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face and 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face gravelly clay; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct irregular mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 1.0 very fine vesicular pores; 2 percent prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and 50 percent prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU058089. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148670; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148671; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148670; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148671
    2Bt6—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay; 20 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) fine distinct irregular mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and 70 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 20 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented pale brown (10YR 6/3) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # MU058090. continuous - phpvsfiid 148672; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148673; continuous - phpvsfiid 148672; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148673
    2R—130 centimeters (51.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.