IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): BETHESDA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989MO175001
  • User Pedon ID: 1989MO175001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989MO175001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M8917501
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30692
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 39.4715843
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5699158
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T54N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 499 feet East and 598 feet North from the South West corner
  • Map Unit: 60058—Bethesda channery silt loam, 20 to 70 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO175—Randolph
  • MLRA: 109—Iowa and Missouri Heavy Till Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO175—Randolph County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39092-D5—Huntsville, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S J Grimes, D K Potter, L A Gaughan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - BETHESDA
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bethesda
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Anthropogenic Feature: openpit mine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Howard Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/26/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39092d5nw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    GLTR

    SYOR

    RUBUS

    Gleditsia triacanthos

    Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

    Rubus

    honeylocust

    coralberry

    blackberry

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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

    50

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    222.2

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    80

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) rubbed gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, acid fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter coal fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU036143; observed in pit, small
    C1—13 to 74 centimeters (5.1 to 29.1 inches); 50 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) exterior and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior very gravelly clay loam; massive; friable; 12 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, silt coats on rock fragments; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, acid fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU036144; observed in pit, small
    C2—74 to 114 centimeters (29.1 to 44.9 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior very gravelly clay loam; massive; firm; 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, acid fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU036145; observed in pit, small
    C3—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); 34 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior and 33 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior and 33 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior very gravelly clay loam; massive; firm; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter shale, acid fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # MU036146; observed in pit, small