IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maplegrove
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO011030
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO011030
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2005MO011030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0501130
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30902
  • 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: 37.5068056
  • Std. Longitude: -94.5648889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R33W
  • Section: 21
  • Map Unit: 40008—Parsons silt loam, 0 to 1 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 and J. R. Perkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Argiudolls
  • 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 - Maplegrove
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dennis
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 41.4 percent of Control section clay


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium over residuum weathered from shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Pennsylvanian group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/2005 (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

    ARCAC

    DACA7

    ELVI3

    ERYU

    EUGR5

    LECA8

    PHLA3

    PYTE

    SCNU

    SOGI

    SOMI2

    VEBA

    Artemisia campestris ssp. caudata

    Dalea candida

    Elymus virginicus

    Eryngium yuccifolium

    Euthamia graminifolia

    Lespedeza capitata

    Phyla lanceolata

    Pycnanthemum tenuifolium

    Schrankia nuttallii

    Solidago gigantea

    Solidago missouriensis

    Vernonia baldwinii

    field sagewort

    white prairie clover

    Virginia wildrye

    button eryngo

    flat-top goldentop

    roundhead lespedeza

    lanceleaf fogfruit

    narrowleaf mountainmint

    giant goldenrod

    Missouri goldenrod

    Baldwin's ironweed

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

    mollic epipedon

    redox concentrations

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—30

    30—203

    30—155

    76—203

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    284.5

    A—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior paragravelly silt loam; 28 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout; 25 percent by volume 5-15-75 millimeter coal fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026457; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—30 to 76 centimeters (11.8 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior silty clay; 6 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 53 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent by volume 5-15-75 millimeter coal fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026458; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt2—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior and 30 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior silty clay; 7 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 50 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3 percent white (10YR 8/1), moist, skeletans and 20 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, organoargillans; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 5-20-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026459; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Bt3—102 to 155 centimeters (40.2 to 61.0 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior paragravelly silty clay loam; 19 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 20 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, organoargillans; 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 20 percent by volume 5-15-75 millimeter coal fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU026460; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—155 to 203 centimeters (61.0 to 79.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) exterior and 40 percent gray (10YR 5/1) exterior clay; 23 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 41 percent clay; massive; firm; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 5-15-75 millimeter coal fragments and 5 percent by volume 5-20-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # MU026461; moist when described; observed in push tube