IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): FRIENDLY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO135024
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO135024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0713524
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25466
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 38.5330556
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5370000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T44N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2,280 feet West and 755 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-E5—California South, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Caldwell, Craig Chatfield, Aaron Woods
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Fragiaquic 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 #: 24
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - FRIENDLY
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Fragiaquic Paleudalfs
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Jefferson City Dolomite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38092e5se
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragic soil properties

    0—18

    18—84

    56—84

    —18—

    —66—

    —28—
    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

    2

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    264.6

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    320

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002624; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002625; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent faint 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 yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002626; observed in pit, small
    2Btxg3—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent faint 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 yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU002627; observed in pit, small