IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wilderness
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO057039M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO057039
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9105739
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 37.3736861
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7960278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T31N
  • Range: R26W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet N and 2300 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 900 ft. north and 2300 ft. west of the southeast corner of sec. 33, T 31 N, R 26 W
  • Map Unit: 73010—Wilderness gravelly silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. D. Chorice, Charles Harwood and Max Aldrich
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • 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 - Wilderness
  • PSC - 28 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wilderness
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 28 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: 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: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/1991 (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

    0—28

    28—191

    64—132

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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

    6

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    305

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040784
    E—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; very friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040785
    Bt1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU040786
    Bt2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU040787
    2Btx1—64 to 102 centimeters (25.2 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) very cobbly silt loam; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic structure; brittle; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU040788
    2Btx2—102 to 132 centimeters (40.2 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) extremely cobbly silt loam; moderate coarse and very coarse prismatic structure; brittle; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU040789
    3Bt3—132 to 173 centimeters (52.0 to 68.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very cobbly clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent distinct clay films; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU040790
    3Bt4—173 to 191 centimeters (68.1 to 75.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) very cobbly clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct iron stains and 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU040791