IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Branson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2002MO179003M
  • User Pedon ID: 2002MO179003M
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0217903
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26913
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 37.3232167
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8962083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 73143—Courtois silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO179—Reynolds
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO179—Reynolds County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37090-C8—Redford, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Leon Thompson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Branson
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/10/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Courtois
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2002
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum and/or slope alluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Ce formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/14/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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—23

    23—178

    —-

    —-
    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

    8

    —

    —

    221

    —

    220

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 fine and medium roots; 7.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012855
    Bt1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine and medium roots; 7.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films; black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012856
    Bt2—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine roots; 7.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats and 15 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films; black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU012857
    Bt3—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) and red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 fine roots; 7.0 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent distinct 7.5YR 6/5 (7.5YR 6/5) silt coats and 35 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2) clay films and 35 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU012858
    Bt4—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); 60 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) and 40 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine roots; 7.0 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent distinct 7.5YR 6/5 (7.5YR 6/5) silt coats and 35 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2) clay films; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU012859
    Bt5—127 to 178 centimeters (50.0 to 70.1 inches); 80 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 20 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 7.0 fine interstitial pores; 50 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter. Lab sample # MU012860