IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eldorado
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981MO185003
  • User Pedon ID: S1981MO185003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0141
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.9722748
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0360489
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T37N
  • Range: R28W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 547 meters E and 30 meters N of SW corner
  • Location Description: Eldorado Springs, north Quad.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO185—St. Clair
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO185—St. Clair County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Howard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Mollic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eldorado
  • PSC - 65 to 105 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eldon
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, thermic Mollic Paleudalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    6

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    239

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    90

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00701
    AB—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00702
    BA—46 to 65 centimeters (18.1 to 25.6 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00703. patchy - phpvsfiid 199523; patchy - phpvsfiid 199523
    BT1—65 to 98 centimeters (25.6 to 38.6 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00704. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 199524; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 199524
    2BT2—98 to 139 centimeters (38.6 to 54.7 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00705. continuous - phpvsfiid 199525; continuous - phpvsfiid 199525
    2BT3—139 to 190 centimeters (54.7 to 74.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent very dark gray (N 3/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 82P00706. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 199527; continuous - phpvsfiid 199526; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 199527; continuous - phpvsfiid 199526