IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Basehor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990MO167103M
  • User Pedon ID: 1990MO167103
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116702
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 37.5877778
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5183333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T21N
  • Range: R33W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 3750 feet W and 1800 feet N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 3750 feet west and 1800 feet north of the southeast corner of sec. 21, T. 21 N., R 33 W. M. Westfall
  • Map Unit: 15000—Basehor fine sandy loam, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard McBee, and John Bowers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous Lithic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Basehor
  • PSC - 25 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Basehor
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/5/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone and/or solid rock derived from sandstone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/5/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—38

    38—203

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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

    10

    —

    —

    358

    —

    0

    991

    —

    —

    13.3

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    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 medium roots and 8.0 fine roots and 0.8 coarse roots; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010377
    Bw1—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) fine sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.8 medium roots and 12.0 fine roots and 0.1 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010378
    Bw2—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 fine roots and 0.8 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU010379
    R—38 centimeters (15.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.