IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Opequon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO153192M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO153192
  • User Site Association ID: 7723
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 102
  • Transect Stop Number - 9
  • Transect Interval - 250.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9715332
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 36.0000000
  • Std. Longitude: -92.0000000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T23N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet E and 750 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 900 feet east and 750 feet south of the NW corner of Sec. 11, T. 23 N., R. 15 W
  • Map Unit: 73225—Ocie-Gatewood complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO153—Ozark
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO153—Ozark County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BF, GC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Opequon
  • PSC - 10 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Opequon
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 56.5 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 45.72 cm of Depth to bedrock


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum and/or slope alluvium
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/22/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4-2
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    10—46

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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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    312

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 15.0 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU018682
    2Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine to coarse roots; 10.0 fine and medium discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 40 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU018683
    2Bt2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 5.0 fine and medium discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 40 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU018684
    2Bt3—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine and medium discontinuous tubular pores; 2 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) iron stains throughout and 20 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains throughout and 55 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU018685
    2R—46 centimeters (18.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.