IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alsup
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO225053M
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO225053
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0822553
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 37.2293889
  • Std. Longitude: -93.0060000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO225—Webster
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO225—Webster County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37093-B1—Oak Grove Heights, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Preston, Scott Paine, Katie Philbrick, Lee Perkins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Aquertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 53
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alsup
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alsup
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Northview Formation clayey slope alluvium derived from clayey shale over Northview Formation clayey residuum weathered from clayey shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Northview Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/3/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37093b1
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

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    5 - 6

    - 1 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—5

    5—152

    5—6

    17—152

    38—152

    —5—

    —147—

    —1—

    —135—

    —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

    19

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    421.8

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    218

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silt loam; 4 percent sand; 81 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate granular structure; friable; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bt1—5 to 17 centimeters (2.0 to 6.7 inches); 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 20 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face clay; 5 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 50 percent clay; strong subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bt2—17 to 38 centimeters (6.7 to 15.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) broken face silty clay; 2 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 45 percent clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Bt3—38 to 55 centimeters (15.0 to 21.7 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) broken face clay; 1 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 50 percent clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 4 percent white (5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate masses; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—55 to 99 centimeters (21.7 to 39.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) broken face gravelly clay; 2 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 4 percent white (5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate masses; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) broken face silty clay; 2 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 43 percent clay; moderate angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 4 percent white (5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate masses; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in push tube