IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): VIRATON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO105014
  • User Pedon ID: S2006MO105014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO10514
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0721
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 37.6518611
  • Std. Longitude: -92.6246667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T34N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1916 feet E and 675 feet S of the S W corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO105—Laclede
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO105—Laclede County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37092-F5—Oakland, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Allan Johnston, Gene Campbell, Fred Young, Duane Viele
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - VIRATON
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Roubidoux Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/11/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37092f5sw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    61 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—25

    25—61

    61—

    —25—

    —36—

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    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

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    387.1

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    112

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03013; observed in pit, small
    AB—17 to 25 centimeters (6.7 to 9.8 inches); 75 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; moderate medium granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03014; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 37 centimeters (9.8 to 14.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; 12 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—37 to 52 centimeters (14.6 to 20.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03016; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—52 to 61 centimeters (20.5 to 24.0 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; 35 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), 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 angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03017; observed in pit, small
    2Btx—61 to 65 centimeters (24.0 to 25.6 inches); brittle; fragments.; observed in pit, small