IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Killarney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1998MO203022M
  • User Pedon ID: 1998MO203022M
  • User Site Association ID: 8666
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 10
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9861322
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31620
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024
  • 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: 37.1157528
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2379500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO203—Shannon
  • MLRA: 116C—St. Francois Knobs and Basins
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO203—Shannon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37091-B2—Powder Mill Ferry, Missouri
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BM, RLT, MS & JSE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • 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 - Killarney
  • PSC - 30 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/28/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Killarney
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 30 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/24/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 36.7 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol) and 13.5 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 44 Cation exchange capacity to clay ratio


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium derived from igneous rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/24/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    97 - 178

    - 81 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    5—30

    30—178

    97—178

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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

    20

    241

    108

    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots; 7.0 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU061563
    E—23 to 35 centimeters (9.1 to 13.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU061564
    Bt1—35 to 56 centimeters (13.8 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 25 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU061565
    Bt2—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 5 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats on faces of peds and 20 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds; 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU061566
    Bt3—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 10 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt coats on faces of peds; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU061567
    2Btx1—102 to 137 centimeters (40.2 to 53.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; brittle; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 10 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats on faces of peds and 25 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU061568
    2Btx2—137 to 183 centimeters (53.9 to 72.0 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; brittle; 0.9 fine tubular pores; 2 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats on faces of peds and 40 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments. Lab sample # MU061569