IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Skidmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019MO181021
  • User Pedon ID: S2019MO181021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0561
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 36.8009959
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9427747
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO181—Ripley
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO181—Ripley County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Garrett McKee, Tory Havens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Dystric Fluventic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Skidmore
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2023
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tilk
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/29/2019
  • Classifier - Garrett McKee
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: upland drainageway
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/29/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Garrett McKee
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    1—20

    20—120

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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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    Oe—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed moderately decomposed plant material; structureless massive; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A—1 to 20 centimeters (0.4 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed extremely gravelly sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 12 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter orthoquartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-150-250 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-45-75 millimeter orthoquartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-45-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N03174; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt1—20 to 35 centimeters (7.9 to 13.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) rubbed very gravelly sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings; 4 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 4 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-150-250 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-45-75 millimeter orthoquartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 38 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-45-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N03175; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt2—35 to 53 centimeters (13.8 to 20.9 inches); 95 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) rubbed and 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) rubbed extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; 68 percent sand; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings; 1 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-150-250 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-45-75 millimeter orthoquartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-45-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N03176; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt3—53 to 93 centimeters (20.9 to 36.6 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) rubbed extremely gravelly sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 19 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules; 3 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter orthoquartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-150-250 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-45-75 millimeter orthoquartzite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 65 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-45-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 19N03177; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt4—93 to 120 centimeters (36.6 to 47.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) rubbed extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-150-250 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and 2 percent by volume nonflat 75-150-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-45-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-45-75 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 19N03178; moist when described; observed in pit, large or quarry