IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Opolis

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: 2005MO011024

User Pedon ID: 2005MO011024

Vegetation Plot ID: 2005MO011024

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - MCL

Lab Pedon # - M0501124

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30904

Print Date: 11/21/2024

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: 37.5067500

Std. Longitude: -94.5156944

Datum: WGS84

Township: T32N

Range: R33W

Section: 24

Map Unit: 40085—Parsons silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes

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: Craig Chatfield

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Albaquic Hapludalfs

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Opolis

PSC - 38 to 88 cm.

Classificaton Date - 3/2/2011

Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition

Moisture Subclass - udic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Opolis

Classificaton Date - 9/20/2005

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

Field Measured Properties: 54.4 percent of Control section clay

SITE

Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from clayey shale

Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve

Hill Slope Profile: summit

Slope Position: upper third

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: linear

Drainage Class: somewhat poorly

Geology: Pennsylvanian group .

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 9/20/2005 (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
ANDRO2 APFL ASER3 CHLA5 ERYU PAOB PHLA3 RHGL RUBUS SMILA2 SYOR VEVI3	Andropogon Apocynum xfloribundum [androsaemifolium x cannabinum] Aster ericoides Chasmanthium latifolium Eryngium yuccifolium Panicum obtusum Phyla lanceolata Rhus glabra Rubus Smilax Symphoricarpos orbiculatus Verbesina virginica	bluestem APOCYNUM FLORIBUNDUM — Indian woodoats button eryngo vine mesquite lanceleaf fogfruit smooth sumac blackberry greenbrier coralberry white crownbeard	— — — — — — — — — — — —	— — — — — — — — — — — —	— — — — — — — — — — — —

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
mollic epipedon albic horizon redox concentrations redox depletions with chroma 2 or less argillic horizon	0—20 20—25 20— 20— 38—	—- —- —- —- —-

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	—	—	305.7	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silt loam; 9 percent sand; 74 percent silt; 17 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026446; moist when described; observed in push tube

E—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); 60 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silt loam; 11 percent sand; 71 percent silt; 18 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026447; moist when described; observed in push tube

Bt1—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior silty clay; 5 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 55 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; extremely firm; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026448; moist when described; observed in push tube

Btg2—53 to 104 centimeters (20.9 to 40.9 inches); 60 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior silty clay loam; 9 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 37 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 35 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026449; moist when described; observed in push tube

2Btg3—104 to 140 centimeters (40.9 to 55.1 inches); 60 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 40 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026450; moist when described; observed in push tube

2Btg4—140 to 203 centimeters (55.1 to 79.9 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior and 20 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 39 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # MU026451; moist when described; observed in push tube