IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Barden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2012MO185001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012MO185001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8072
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55417
  • Print Date: 5/2/2025

    • 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: 37.9871750
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0364528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T37N
  • Range: R28W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet east and 155 feet north
  • Map Unit: 40038—Barden silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO185—St. Clair
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-H1—El Dorado Springs North, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gene Campbell, Mark Abney, J.R. Perkins, Scott Paine
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Aquollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Barden
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Aquollic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 31 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Cherokee Group formation of the Pennsylvanian group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    abrupt textural change

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—31

    31—200

    31—200

    31—58

    58—200

    127—200

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    2

    —

    —

    242

    —

    30

    1038

    —

    —

    12.9

    25

    1

    14.5

    23

    6.4

    —

    —

    2193

    Schell-Osage

    SCAN
    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; few (0.7) very fine roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03270
    A—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout and few (0.7) fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03271
    E—23 to 31 centimeters (9.1 to 12.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak thick platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; 20 percent gray (10YR 6/1) silt coats on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03272
    Bt1—31 to 58 centimeters (12.2 to 22.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; 48 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N03273
    Btg2—58 to 80 centimeters (22.8 to 31.5 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 40 percent gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay; 44 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent black (N 2/) iron-manganese masses throughout and 10 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-3-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03274
    Btg3—80 to 127 centimeters (31.5 to 50.0 inches); 50 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent black (N 2/) iron-manganese masses throughout and 15 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-3-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N03275
    2Bt4—127 to 200 centimeters (50.0 to 78.7 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 30 percent gray (10YR 6/1) very gravelly silty clay; 41 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subangular 75-125-250 millimeter chert fragments and 50 percent by volume subangular 2-35-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # 12N03276