IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): GASCONADE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO027051
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO027051
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO02751
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - Reform-33E-2
  • Transect Stop Number - 5
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0602751
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25464
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 38.7431389
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7673611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 1,942 feet West and 2,457 feet South from the North East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO027—Callaway
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO027—Callaway County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-F7—Mokane East, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Caldwell, LeAnn Bullard, David Dowdy, Larry Slechta
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 51
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - GASCONADE
  • PSC - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GASCONADE
  • PSC - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/23/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered dolomite (dolostone) at 30cm with 45 to <100 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: Cotter Dolomite "swan Creek" formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/23/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091f7ne
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    JUVI

    QUST

    Juniperus virginiana

    Quercus stellata

    eastern redcedar

    post oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    30 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—30

    30—

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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

    19

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    207.6

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    180

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed very gravelly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout and 10.0 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002618; observed in pit, small
    A2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout and 10.0 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002619; observed in pit, small
    R—30 to 30 centimeters (11.8 to 11.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small