IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alred
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO203072M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO203072M
  • User Site Association ID: 8630
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - shannon-75F3
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9761372
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26427
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.3697778
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3916972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO203—Shannon
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO203—Shannon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37091-C4—Round Spring, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RLT,BM,MS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal over clayey, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alred
  • PSC - 64 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/10/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alred
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal over clayey, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 30 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • Field Measured Properties: 17 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 74 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 53 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol) and 10 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol)


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from dolomite and/or slope alluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 8
  • 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

    strongly contrasting particle size class

    0—30

    30—152

    79—

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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

    24

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    90

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine and medium roots; 7.0 fine to coarse tubular pores; 45 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009551
    E—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots; 7.0 fine to coarse tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009552
    Bt1—30 to 64 centimeters (11.8 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine and medium roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 7.0 fine to coarse vesicular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films on rock fragments and 75 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) silt coats on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter chert fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU009553
    Bt2—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) very gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 7.0 fine vesicular pores; 35 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/8) clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats on faces of peds; 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU009554
    2Bt3—79 to 132 centimeters (31.1 to 52.0 inches); 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 7.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent distinct light brown (7.5YR 6/3) silt coats on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009555
    2Bt4—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine roots; 0.9 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent distinct black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) nonintersecting slickensides on faces of peds and 35 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU009556