IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharpsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957MO025005
  • User Pedon ID: S1957MO025005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2721
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37303
  • 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: 39.6991959
  • Std. Longitude: -93.9127197
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 56N
  • Range: 27W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: Northeast corner of NE 1/4 NW 1/4 NE 1/4, sixty feet west of east pasture fence and 140 feet south of road center on north
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO025—Caldwell
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO025—Caldwell County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39093-F8—Hamilton East, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. S. Allen, F. J. Carlisle, H. E. Grogger, Robert Hamby, and Ed Hughes.
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharpsburg
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/29/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    A11—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine platy parts to weak fine platy, and fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A21345
    A12—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A21346
    B1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silty clay loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A21347. clay skins not identifiable.
    B21—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed silty clay loam; dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine faint and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent noncoherent cemented dark concretions; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A21348. slightly less clay than horizon below; oxide concretions are about 1 mm in diameter; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176719; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176719
    B22—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed silty clay loam; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and 1 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) fine faint and 3 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine faint mottles; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 0.5 pores; clay films; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A21349. occasional soft dark oxide accumulations 1 mm in diameter; few pores .07 to 1 mm in diameter within peds but most pores are between peds.; continuous - phpvsfiid 176720; continuous - phpvsfiid 176720
    D1?—89 to 119 centimeters (35.0 to 46.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine and medium faint mottles; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; 3.0 tubular pores; very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) clay films on faces of peds and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3); fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A21350. common fine dark oxide accumulations on surfaces of peds and within peds; pores .07 to 2 mm in diameter lined with clay films.; continuous - phpvsfiid 192325; continuous - phpvsfiid 192325
    D2?—119 to 150 centimeters (46.9 to 59.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium and coarse prismatic structure; tubular pores; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) clay films on faces of peds and reddish brown (5YR 4/3); fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A21351. kneaded color is dark brown to brown (7.5YR 4/4), pores are lined with very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films; few fine soft dark oxide accumulations mostly less than 1 mm in diameter.; continuous - phpvsfiid 176820; continuous - phpvsfiid 176820
    D3?—150 to 198 centimeters (59.1 to 78.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) clay films and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) on faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A21352. common tubular pores .07 to 1 mm. in diameter; few tubular pores 2 to 5 mm in diameter lined with very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) material; few fine soft dark oxide accumulations.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176822; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176822
    198 to 213 centimeters (78.0 to 83.9 inches); yellow (10YR 8/6) silty clay; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21353. Yellowish (shaly?) slightly gritty silty clay.
    213 centimeters (83.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A21354. Limestone bedrock.