IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Irondale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO203041M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO203041M
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 5
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9761341
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 27800
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.1275278
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2341306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO203—Shannon
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO203—Shannon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37091-B2—Powder Mill Ferry, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BM,SB,LT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Irondale
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Irondale
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/15/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 12.3 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 80 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol)


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium over residuum
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/15/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    —

    86 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—41

    41—86

    86—

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

    265

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face very gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 fine and medium roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 7.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU018869
    Bt1—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face extremely gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 7.0 fine to coarse tubular pores; 15 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organic stains on faces of peds; 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU018870
    Bt2—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); 50 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) broken face extremely gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots; 3.0 medium tubular and 7.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on rock fragments and 35 percent distinct white (5YR 8/1) silt coats on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 70 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU018871
    Bt3—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); 50 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) broken face extremely cobbly loam; 35 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) fine prominent mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine and medium vesicular and 1.0 coarse vesicular pores; 15 percent distinct gray (7.5YR 6/1) clay films on rock fragments and 15 percent distinct white (5YR 8/1) silt coats on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct gray (5YR 6/1) clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 60 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter rhyolite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU018872
    R—86 centimeters (33.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.