IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gatewood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1991MO167174M
  • User Pedon ID: 1991MO167174
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9116728
  • 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: 37.7875000
  • Std. Longitude: -93.3452778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T35N
  • Range: R22W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet S and 1400 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 1,500 feet south and 1,400 feet east of the northwest corner of section 15, T. 35 N., R. 22 W., Sentinel Wildlife Area.
  • Map Unit: 73002—Ocie-Gatewood complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard E. McBee, Richard Henderson, and John Bowers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, mixed Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - Gatewood
  • PSC - 33 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gatewood
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/1991
  • 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 dolomite and/or solid rock derived from dolomite
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/7/1991 (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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—33

    33—69

    69—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

    7

    —

    —

    283

    —

    0

    1041

    —

    —

    13.3

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    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015149
    E—5 to 33 centimeters (2.0 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine and medium roots; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU015150
    2Bt1—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015151
    2Bt2—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (N 2/0) iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015152
    2R—69 centimeters (27.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.