IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liberal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO011002
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO011002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2005MO011002
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T05MO011001
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Transect Interval - 9.8
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0501102
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 27116
  • 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: 37.5150000
  • Std. Longitude: -94.5139722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R33W
  • Section: 24
  • Location Description: Prairie State Park. This site is East of NN hwy
  • Map Unit: 40048—Collinsville fine sandy loam, 2 to 14 percent slopes, stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO011—Barton
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO011—Barton County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-E5—Liberal, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.R. Perkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, active, thermic Mollic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Liberal
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Liberal
  • Classificaton Date - 8/22/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 39.3 percent of Control section clay


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent shale, unspecified at 122cm
  • Geology: Pennsylvanian group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/22/2005 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AMCA6

    APFL

    BAPTI

    DECA8

    ECPA

    HEMO2

    RHCO

    SCNU

    SIIN2

    SOGI

    Amorpha canescens

    Apocynum xfloribundum [androsaemifolium x cannabinum]

    Baptisia

    Desmodium canescens

    Echinacea pallida

    Helianthus mollis

    Rhus copallinum

    Schrankia nuttallii

    Silphium integrifolium

    Solidago gigantea

    leadplant

    APOCYNUM FLORIBUNDUM

    wild indigo

    hoary ticktrefoil

    pale purple coneflower

    ashy sunflower

    winged sumac

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    wholeleaf rosinweed

    giant goldenrod

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    paralithic contact

    0—18

    18—122

    69—203

    122—

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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

    6

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    301.7

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    30

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silt loam; 22 percent sand; 73 percent silt; 5 percent clay; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # MU014339; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior clay; 20 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 42 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # MU014340; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 40 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) exterior clay; 3 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 69 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 5-50-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # MU014341; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt3—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3) exterior and 40 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) exterior clay; 2 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 68 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # MU014342; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt4—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and 50 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) exterior clay; 1 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 65 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent prominent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 5-50-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # MU014343; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 293586; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 293586
    Bt5—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) exterior silty clay; 3 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 54 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; very firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium iron-manganese concretions with clear boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # MU014344; moist when described; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 293488; patchy - phpvsfiid 293488
    Cr—122 to 203 centimeters (48.0 to 79.9 inches); strongly coherent; fragments.; moist when described; observed in push tube