IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bearthicket
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2001MO179010M
  • User Pedon ID: 2001MO179010M
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0117910
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30938
  • Print Date: 12/7/2025

    • 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: 37.1374500
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8571472
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 75381—Bearthicket silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO179—Reynolds
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO179—Reynolds County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37090-B7—Clearwater Dam, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RLT, MS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bearthicket
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bearthicket
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/2001
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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—20

    20—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

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    167.6

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.9 medium roots; 7.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU022820
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 very fine and fine roots; 7.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films and 35 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) organic stains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU022821
    Bt2—41 to 91 centimeters (16.1 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 very fine and fine roots; 7.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU022822
    Bt3—91 to 137 centimeters (35.8 to 53.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine and medium roots; 7.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) sand coats and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU022823
    Bt4—137 to 163 centimeters (53.9 to 64.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films and 15 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU022824
    2Bt5—163 to 178 centimeters (64.2 to 70.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine interstitial pores; 35 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) sand coats and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter. Lab sample # MU022825