IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Taumsauk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1998MO203069M
  • User Pedon ID: 1998MO203069M
  • User Site Association ID: 8663
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 6
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9861369
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31590
  • 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: 37.1196611
  • Std. Longitude: -91.1735361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO203—Shannon
  • MLRA: 116C—St. Francois Knobs and Basins
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO203—Shannon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37091-A2—Stegall Mountain, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SE,BM,MS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Taumsauk
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Taumsauk
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Lithic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 25 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 40 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol)


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from acid igneous rock
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 21
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    bedrock, lithic

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    33 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    1—10

    10—33

    33—

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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

    25

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    39

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); very gravelly slightly decomposed plant material; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine and medium roots; 7.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU061764
    Bt—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 2 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on rock fragments and 2 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 2 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU061765
    R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.