IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gressy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2009MO109004M
  • User Pedon ID: 2009MO109004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0910904
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 37.2691944
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8578056
  • 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 Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gressy
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nixa
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy loess derived from mixed over fine-loamy slope alluvium derived from sedimentary rock over clayey residuum weathered from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • 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

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    20—203

    20—203

    157—203

    —20—

    —183—

    —183—

    —46—
    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

    12

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    367.6

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    83

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silt loam; 16 percent sand; 74 percent silt; 10 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 # MU005736; observed in push tube
    Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silt loam; 16 percent sand; 73 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak fine 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 # MU005737; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; 12 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine pores; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 14 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005738; observed in push tube
    Bt2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); 85 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face and 15 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 39 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine pores; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent silt coats on surfaces along pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005739; observed in push tube
    Bt3—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 37 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 0.5 fine pores; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005740; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—81 to 157 centimeters (31.9 to 61.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face very gravelly clay loam; 22 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 38 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 0.5 fine pores; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005741; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—157 to 203 centimeters (61.8 to 79.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face very gravelly clay; 5 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 59 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; extremely firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 0.5 fine pores; 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU005742; observed in push tube