IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arkana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO135015M
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO135015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713515
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.5158611
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5197778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T44N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 2519 feet W and 173 feet S of the SE corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO135—Moniteau
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO135—Moniteau County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-E5—California South, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Caldwell, Craig Chatfield, Aaron Woods
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkana
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/22/2014
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkana
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/12/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium over residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Jefferson City Dolomite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/12/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38092e5se
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion rill
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—36

    36—99

    —20—

    —16—

    —63—
    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

    10

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    257.9

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    330

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000212; observed in pit, small
    A2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 12 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 50 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000213; observed in pit, small
    E—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 50 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000214; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face extremely gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 12 percent faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 60 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000215; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face and 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face gravelly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU000216; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face clay; moderate medium prismatic, and massive; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 60 percent prominent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments.; observed in pit, small
    R—99 centimeters (39.0 inches); bedrock; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments.; observed in pit, small