IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gasconade
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988MO073006M
  • User Pedon ID: 1988MO073006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8807306
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 38.3487000
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5561000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T42N
  • Range: R6W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet N and 300 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Owensville West Quad
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO073—Gasconade
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Struckhoff and Bob Held
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gasconade
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/2014
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gasconade
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/25/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone) at 46cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/5/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    46 -

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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

    30

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    256

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    155

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; firm; many fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU033074
    A2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) gravelly silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; common fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU033075
    Bw—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU033076
    R—46 centimeters (18.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.