IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crackerneck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1998MO119186M
  • User Pedon ID: 1998MO119186
  • User Site Association ID: 8495
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 98-04
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Transect Interval - 240.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9811918
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 36.7391586
  • Std. Longitude: -94.1221924
  • 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: MDO,KLG,JAW
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crackerneck
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crackerneck
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/3/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from cherty limestone 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
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/3/1998 (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—28

    46—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

    7

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    381

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    200

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 50 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013296
    E—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly silt; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 8.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) organic stains in root channels and/or pores; 3 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 35 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013297. 10% of chert is tripolitic.; continuous - phpvsfiid 159424; continuous - phpvsfiid 159424
    Bt1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) extremely gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 1 percent faint brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films on faces of peds and 3 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) organic stains in root channels and/or pores; 75 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013298. 30% of chert is tripolitic.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159532; continuous - phpvsfiid 159409; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159532; continuous - phpvsfiid 159409
    2Bt2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) extremely gravelly silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine to medium void between rock fragments and 2.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 2 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) organic stains in root channels and/or pores and 2 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on rock fragments and 40 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) skeletans on faces of peds; 1 percent fine and medium irregular black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 70 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013299. 75% of chert is tripolitic.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154633; continuous - phpvsfiid 154632; continuous - phpvsfiid 154634; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154633; continuous - phpvsfiid 154632; continuous - phpvsfiid 154634
    3Bt3—66 to 140 centimeters (26.0 to 55.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) extremely cobbly clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots in cracks; 2.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 6 percent distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay films in root channels and/or pores and 8 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) skeletans in root channels and/or pores and 50 percent distinct dark red (10R 3/6) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 20 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 60 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013300. 50% of chert is tripolitic.; continuous - phpvsfiid 154030; continuous - phpvsfiid 154031; continuous - phpvsfiid 159227; continuous - phpvsfiid 154030; continuous - phpvsfiid 154031; continuous - phpvsfiid 159227
    3Bt4—140 to 203 centimeters (55.1 to 79.9 inches); red (10R 4/8) extremely cobbly clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 1 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films in root channels and/or pores and 2 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) skeletans in root channels and/or pores and 25 percent distinct dark red (10R 3/6) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 80 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments. Lab sample # MU013301. Cobbles are horizontally bedded across horizon. 20% of chert is tripolitic.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159229; continuous - phpvsfiid 159228; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159230; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159229; continuous - phpvsfiid 159228; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159230