IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ELDON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO135017
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO135017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713517
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25441
  • 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: 38.5851944
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8091667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T44N
  • Range: R17W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 994 feet West and 1,306 feet North from the South East 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-E7—Fortuna, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Caldwell, Craig Chatfield, Aaron Woods
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ELDON
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Paleudalfs
  • PSC - 41 to 91 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

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • 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: 38092e7ne
  • 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 gully
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    41—155

    —20—

    —114—
    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

    14

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    —

    277.4

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    291

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002455; observed in pit, small
    E—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 25 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU002456; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face and 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face gravelly clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU002457; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face gravelly clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent faint pressure faces on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark grayish brown (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU002458; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face and 40 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face gravelly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 60 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU002459; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—104 to 155 centimeters (40.9 to 61.0 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face gravelly clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent faint pressure faces on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat weakly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat weakly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU002460; observed in pit, small