IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crackerneck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1998MO119185M
  • User Pedon ID: 1998MO119185
  • User Site Association ID: 8495
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 98-04
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Transect Interval - 240.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9811917
  • 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: 36.7385500
  • Std. Longitude: -94.1216667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T23N
  • Range: R30W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • Location Description: SE1/4,SW1/4,Sec1,T23N,R30W
  • Map Unit: 70080—Noark-Clarksville-Crackerneck complex, karst, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO119—McDonald
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO119—McDonald County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KLG,MDO
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudults
  • 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 - Crackerneck
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crackerneck
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from cherty limestone and/or loess and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/2/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9D
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    0—36

    36—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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    381

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    240

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 15.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 38 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU060613. 10% of chert is tripolitic.
    BA—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU060614. 20% of chert is tripolitic.
    Bt1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) organic stains on faces of peds and 10 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses throughout; 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU060615. 30% of chert is tripolitic.; patchy - phpvsfiid 159428; patchy - phpvsfiid 159429; patchy - phpvsfiid 159428; patchy - phpvsfiid 159429
    2Bt2—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely gravelly silty clay loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) skeletans in root channels and/or pores and 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 75 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU060616. 40% of chert is tripolitic.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154641; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159430; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154641; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159430
    3Bt3—76 to 142 centimeters (29.9 to 55.9 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) extremely cobbly silty clay loam; massive; firm; brittle; 2.0 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 15 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films in root channels and/or pores and 25 percent prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films in root channels and/or pores and 50 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) skeletans in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent fine irregular black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses around rock fragments; 20 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 25 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 45 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU060617. Subrounded rock is tripolitic. Subangular cobbles are horizontally bedded at bottom of horizon.; continuous - phpvsfiid 154642; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159420; continuous - phpvsfiid 154643; continuous - phpvsfiid 154642; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159420; continuous - phpvsfiid 154643
    3Bt4—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) extremely cobbly clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 3 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2) clay films in root channels and/or pores and 7 percent distinct light brown (7.5YR 6/4) skeletans in root channels and/or pores and 50 percent prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent fine irregular black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 25 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments. Lab sample # MU060618. Subrounded rock is tripolitic. Subangular cobbles are horizontally bedded at bottom of horizon.; patchy - phpvsfiid 159421; patchy - phpvsfiid 159422; continuous - phpvsfiid 159423; patchy - phpvsfiid 159421; patchy - phpvsfiid 159422; continuous - phpvsfiid 159423