IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alsup
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1998MO039170M
  • User Pedon ID: 1998MO039170
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9803906
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 37.6845750
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7865250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T34N
  • Range: R26W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet E and 2550 S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 2300 feet east and 2550 south of the northwest corner of sec. 16, 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, and Richard L. Hendrson
  • 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 - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/1998
  • 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 and/or solid rock derived from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: shale and siltstone
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/12/1998 (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—61

    61—145

    145—160

    160—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

    5

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    287

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    125

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 8.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009734
    E—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 4.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009735
    BE—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very cobbly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.8 fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) iron concretions; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU009736
    2Bt1—61 to 99 centimeters (24.0 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.4 medium roots and 0.8 fine roots; 0.8 fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) coats in root channels and/or pores and 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009737
    2Bt2—99 to 145 centimeters (39.0 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 medium roots and 0.8 fine roots; 0.3 fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) iron depletions and 5 percent fine grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; 35 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter shale-siltstone fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU009738
    2Cr—145 to 160 centimeters (57.1 to 63.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    2R—160 centimeters (63.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.