IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alsup
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1998MO039168M
  • User Pedon ID: 1998MO039168
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9803904
  • 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: 37.6922733
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7533723
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T34N
  • Range: R26W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 450 feet E and 550 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 450 feet east and 550 north of the southwest corner of sec. 11, T. 34 N., R. 26 W.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO039—Cedar
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO039—Cedar County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Burney, Richard L. Henderson and Richard McBee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alsup
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1998
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium and/or residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: shale and siltstone
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—41

    41—122

    122—137

    137—203

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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

    17

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    256

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    270

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots top of horizon; 10.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU059681
    E—8 to 41 centimeters (3.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very gravelly silt; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots top of horizon; 5.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 20 percent silt coats on faces of peds; 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU059682
    2Bt1—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU059683
    2Bt2—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.8 fine roots; 0.3 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent coats in root channels and/or pores and 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent fine and medium red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU059684
    2Bt3—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) gravelly silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.4 medium roots and 0.8 fine roots; 0.3 fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine and medium light gray (2.5Y 7/2) iron depletions and 10 percent medium reddish brown (5YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU059685
    2Cr—122 to 137 centimeters (48.0 to 53.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    2R—137 centimeters (53.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.