IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Balltown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004MO217001
  • User Pedon ID: 2004MO217001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0421701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26498
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.0164444
  • Std. Longitude: -94.6120000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 40030—Balltown very flaggy silt loam, 5 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO217—Vernon
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO217—Vernon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-G5—Deerfield, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.R. Perkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, thermic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Balltown
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, thermic Lithic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 28cm
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent flat subangular indurated 50- to 200-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    0—28

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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

    33

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    249

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    275

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); 60 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior and 40 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout; 10.0 very fine interstitial and 7.0 medium tubular pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 50-100-130 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 50-130-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010033; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 11.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent fine prominent spherical masses of oxidized iron throughout; 30 percent by volume flat very angular very weakly coherent cemented 5-40-80 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat very angular strongly coherent cemented 5-40-80 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 50-130-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010034; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—28 centimeters (11.0 inches); bedrock; indurated; fragments.; observed in pit, small