IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bearthicket
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2001MO179011M
  • User Pedon ID: 2001MO179011M
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0117911
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26368
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 37.1388861
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8569361
  • 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: MS, LT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • 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 - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/10/2010
  • 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 - 18 to 68 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: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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—18

    18—211

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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

    1

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    167.6

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 7.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009071
    Bt1—18 to 58 centimeters (7.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 7.0 fine vesicular pores; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009072
    Bt2—58 to 99 centimeters (22.8 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 7.0 fine vesicular pores; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay films and 15 percent distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt coats; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009073
    Bt3—99 to 147 centimeters (39.0 to 57.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.9 fine roots; 7.0 fine vesicular pores; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay films; 35 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009074
    Bt4—147 to 170 centimeters (57.9 to 66.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots; 7.0 fine vesicular pores; 35 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films; 35 percent fine and medium distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009075
    Bt5—170 to 211 centimeters (66.9 to 83.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine vesicular pores; 15 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films; 15 percent fine and medium distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter. Lab sample # MU009076