IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Viraton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167146M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167146
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116722
  • 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: 37.6664430
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3712630
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T34N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet E and 1050 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 1000 feet east and 1050 feet south of the northwest corner of Sec. 20, T. 34 N., R. 22 W.
  • Map Unit: 73008—Viraton silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37093-F3—Polk, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Larry E. Kickler, Richard McBee and John Bowers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous Typic 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 - Viraton
  • PSC - 10 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/26/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or unconsolidated sediments derived from cherty limestone and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/26/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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—10

    10—157

    46—157

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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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    299

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU043054
    Bt—10 to 46 centimeters (3.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU043055
    2Btx1—46 to 137 centimeters (18.1 to 53.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and reddish gray (5YR 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU043056
    2Btx2—137 to 157 centimeters (53.9 to 61.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and brown (7.5YR 5/2) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) very gravelly clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU043057