IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Branson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1998MO091085M
  • User Pedon ID: 1998MO091085
  • User Site Association ID: 7985
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 42B-2
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Transect Interval - 100.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9809113
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 36.8930056
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8293583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 70025—Branson-Splitlimb complex, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO091—Howell
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO091—Howell County, Missouri
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SFP, RDR, MJM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed Typic Paleudults
  • 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 - Branson
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Branson
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over alluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    0—18

    18—203

    —-

    —-

    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

    2

    341

    0

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; friable; 7.0 very fine roots throughout; 7.0 fine interstitial pores; 3 percent fine spherical black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # MU011459
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU011460. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142905; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142906; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142905; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142906
    Bt2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout and 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU011461. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142907; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142908; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142909; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142907; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142908; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142909
    Bt3—51 to 97 centimeters (20.1 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments and 75 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent fine spherical noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses throughout and 2 percent fine irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented strong brown (N 2/0) iron-manganese concretions throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU011462. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142910; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142911; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142910; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142911
    2Bt4—97 to 114 centimeters (38.2 to 44.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 0.1 very fine tubular pores; 75 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU011463. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142912; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142912
    2Bt5—114 to 142 centimeters (44.9 to 55.9 inches); 60 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 40 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 0.1 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt coats on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU011464. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142913; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142914; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142913; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142914
    2Bt6—142 to 165 centimeters (55.9 to 65.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU011465. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142915; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142916; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142915; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 142916