IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Viraton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990MO057075M
  • User Pedon ID: 1990MO057075
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9005775
  • 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: 37.2953194
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8766389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T30N
  • Range: R27W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 2950 feet N and 850 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 2950 ft. north and 850 ft. east of the southwest corner of sec. 35, T 30 N, R 27 W.
  • Map Unit: 73008—Viraton silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Max Aldrich, Charles Harwood and R. D. Chorice
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/12/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or slope alluvium derived from cherty limestone and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/12/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—71

    71—109

    109—152

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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

    3

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    360

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt; strong fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037912
    EB—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate thin platy parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037913
    Bt1—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037914
    Bt2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037915
    Bt3—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); 80 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037916
    2Btx1—71 to 71 centimeters (28.0 to 28.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and light brown (7.5YR 6/4) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) extremely gravelly silt loam; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic structure; brittle; 3.0 very fine and fine roots top of horizon; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037917
    2Btx2—91 to 109 centimeters (35.8 to 42.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 20 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) very gravelly silt loam; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic parts to moderate thin platy structure; brittle; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU037918
    3Bt4—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); 90 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and 10 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) gravelly clay loam; strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU037919