IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Viraton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2009MO109003M
  • User Pedon ID: 2009MO109003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0910903
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 37.2691110
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8583060
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO109—Lawrence
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO606—Greene and Lawrence Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37093-C7—South Greenfield, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Doug Gisselbeck, Thomas DeWitt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy loess derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock over clayey slope alluvium derived from sedimentary rock over fine-loamy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Burlington Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/19/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37093c7
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—18

    18—152

    71—109

    109—152

    —18—

    —134—

    —38—

    —43—
    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

    4

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    369.7

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    22

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior silt loam; 14 percent sand; 74 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 medium and 10.0 fine pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU008737; observed in push tube
    Ap2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; 15 percent sand; 75 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 medium and 10.0 fine pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU008738; observed in push tube
    Bt1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine pores; 12 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on surfaces along pores and 12 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; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU008739; observed in push tube
    Bt2—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior gravelly clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine pores; 12 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on surfaces along pores and 12 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; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU008740; observed in push tube
    2Bt3—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior gravelly silty clay; 12 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine pores; 12 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU008741; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—91 to 109 centimeters (35.8 to 42.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior gravelly clay; 21 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium platy structure; extremely firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine pores; 40 percent prominent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU008742; observed in push tube
    3Bt5—109 to 127 centimeters (42.9 to 50.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior gravelly loam; 26 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak medium platy, and weak medium prismatic structure; very firm; 20 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent prominent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU008743; observed in push tube
    3Bt6—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior very channery loam; 29 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak medium platy structure; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 25 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # MU008744; observed in push tube