IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Taumsauk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO203030M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO203030M
  • User Site Association ID: 8656
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 8
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9761330
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31673
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 37.1253611
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2344861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T28N
  • Range: R3W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet E and 1350 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 100 feet east and 1,350 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 1, T. 28 N., R. 3 W.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO203—Shannon
  • MLRA: 116C—St. Francois Knobs and Basins
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO203—Shannon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37091-B2—Powder Mill Ferry, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SB, BM, LT, MS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Lithic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Taumsauk
  • PSC - 10 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Taumsauk
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Lithic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 15 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 45 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol)


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from acid igneous rock
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/12/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    40 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    1—10

    10—40

    40—

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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

    11

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    303

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    24

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—1 to 9 centimeters (0.4 to 3.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) cobbly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots; 3.0 fine to coarse tubular and 1.0 coarse interstitial and tubular pores; 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter rhyolite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU059418
    Bt—9 to 40 centimeters (3.5 to 15.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very cobbly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots; 3.0 medium and coarse tubular and 7.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct black (N 2/0), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter rhyolite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU059419
    R—40 centimeters (15.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Rhyolite bedrock at 16 inches.