IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Secesh
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO035003M
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO035003M
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO035003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0603503
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25196
  • User Project ID: 2021-26NCSPR013
  • Project Name: MLRA 116A - Mark Twain National Forest Update
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 36.9535242
  • Std. Longitude: -91.0762404
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T26N
  • Range: R1W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 427 feet E and 1033 feet S of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: 75381—Bearthicket silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO035—Carter
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO035—Carter County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36091-H1—Van Buren South, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jennifer Pellett, Michael Wyatt, Rod Taylor, Leon Thompson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Secesh
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2018
  • Classifier - J.R. Perkins
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bearthicket
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/30/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • Field Measured Properties: 21.5 percent of pscs clay and 15.7 percent of pscs sand and 0 percent of pscs gravel and 0.37 ratio of cec to clay ratio


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Gasconade Dolomite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/30/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 36091h1nw
  • Surface Water Kind: flooded
  • Surface Water Depth: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LOAR10

    TRIFO

    ERSP

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Trifolium

    Eragrostis spectabilis

    tall fescue

    clover

    purple lovegrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—183

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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

    1

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    164

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    112

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000483; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000484; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000485; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—74 to 122 centimeters (29.1 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 12 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000486; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—122 to 163 centimeters (48.0 to 64.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU000487; observed in pit, small
    Bt5—163 to 183 centimeters (64.2 to 72.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium moderate-continuity tubular and 0.5 medium moderate-continuity vesicular pores; fragments. Lab sample # MU000488; observed in pit, small