IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sonsac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1993MO057008M
  • User Pedon ID: 1993MO057008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9305705
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 37.4969444
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7502778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R26W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 2450 feet S and 270 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: 2450 ft. south and 270 ft. west of norhteast corner sec. 23, T. 32 N., R 26 W. Corps of Engineers
  • Map Unit: 70044—Sonsac-Moko complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes, rocky
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Burney and Richard L. Henderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sonsac
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sonsac
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/1993
  • 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 and/or solid rock derived from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/18/1993 (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—94

    94—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

    15

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    —

    276

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    90

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU047453
    BE—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) very gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047454
    Bt1—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) extremely cobbly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains and 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047455
    2Bt2—56 to 94 centimeters (22.0 to 37.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very cobbly clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint manganese or iron-manganese stains and 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU047456
    2R—94 centimeters (37.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.