IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Viraton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO161025M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO161025
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1991MO161025
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T27-91
  • Transect Stop Number - 7
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116125
  • 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: 37.7279167
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8956111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T35N
  • Range: R9W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 824 feet E and 2211 feet S of the NW 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: 37091-F8—Flat, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Butler, R Rouse
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • PSC - 10 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tonti
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed over Roubidoux Formation clayey slope alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Roubidoux Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37091f8ne
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

    —

    —

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    10—152

    —10—

    —142—
    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

    5

    —

    —

    353.3

    —

    108

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU007550; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face gravelly silt loam; moderate subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; 12 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume subrounded strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Btx1—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); 25 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face and 25 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face extremely gravelly silt loam; weak thin platy structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 12 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Btx2—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches); 25 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 25 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face and 25 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face gravelly clay loam; weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 250-?-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded very strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—104 to 137 centimeters (40.9 to 53.9 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face gravelly clay; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); 40 percent gray (10YR 6/1) broken face and 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) broken face and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face very gravelly clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments.; observed in pit, small