IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Townhole
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO059003M
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO059003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2008MO059003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0805903
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 37.8425000
  • Std. Longitude: -92.9256111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T36N
  • Range: R18W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet E and 1231 feet N of the S W corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO059—Dallas
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO059—Dallas County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37092-G8—Leadmine, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jeff Woodward, Brian Fredrick, Dick Henderson, Gene Campbell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudalfs
  • 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 - Townhole
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Townhole
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly slope alluvium derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock over gravelly residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Gasconade Dolomite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/13/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37092g8
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    QUST

    THUJA

    QUMU

    Quercus stellata

    Thuja

    Quercus muehlenbergii

    post oak

    arborvitae

    chinquapin oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—8

    38—147

    38—203

    81—168

    147—168

    168—203

    —8—

    —109—

    —165—

    —87—

    —21—

    —35—
    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

    19.3

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    280.1

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    265

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) rubbed gravelly silt loam; 37 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007616; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—8 to 38 centimeters (3.1 to 15.0 inches); 95 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face extremely gravelly silt loam; 36 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine high-continuity interstitial and 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007617; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—38 to 81 centimeters (15.0 to 31.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 10 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face gravelly silt loam; 21 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine high-continuity tubular and 0.5 fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007618; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face extremely gravelly loam; 37 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007619; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—109 to 147 centimeters (42.9 to 57.9 inches); 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face extremely cobbly loam; 44 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007620; observed in pit, small
    3Bt5—147 to 168 centimeters (57.9 to 66.1 inches); 60 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face very gravelly clay loam; 36 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007621; observed in pit, small
    4Bt6—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); 80 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face and 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face and 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face gravelly clay; 14 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 63 percent clay; strong fine angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU007622; observed in pit, small