IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Viraton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990MO161034M
  • User Pedon ID: 1990MO161034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9016134
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 38.0396940
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8399720
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T38N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 236 feet W and 840 feet N of the SE corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO161—Phelps
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO161—Phelps County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-A7—Vichy, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Butler, J Bostic
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 34
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • PSC - 13 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 13 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed over Jefferson City Dolomite gravelly slope alluvium derived from interbedded sedimentary rock over Roubidoux Formation clayey residuum weathered from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered chert at 122cm with 10 to <45 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: Roubidoux Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091a7sw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    bedrock, lithic

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    51 - 99

    122 - 122

    - 48 -

    - 1 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—122

    51—99

    122—122

    —13—

    —109—

    —48—

    —1—
    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

    7

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    267.6

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    110

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 3.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU008674; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt2—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 12 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt3—46 to 51 centimeters (18.1 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Btx—51 to 99 centimeters (20.1 to 39.0 inches); 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face extremely gravelly loam; weak platy, and moderate very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU008678; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Bt—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face very gravelly sandy clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 12 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2R—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, large or quarry