IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sonsac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO039039M
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO039039
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9503905
  • 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: 37.6206276
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7289092
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T33N
  • Range: R26W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet N and 1700 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: 1,300 feet north and 1,700 feet west of the southeast corner of sec. 1, T. 33 N., R. 26 W.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO039—Cedar
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO039—Cedar County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard McBee, R. D. Chorice, Richard Henderson and Mike Burney
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, 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 - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/6/1995
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sonsac
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/6/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered 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: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, cherty
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/6/1995 (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—8

    8—81

    81—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

    20

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    282

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    275

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 17 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU052405
    BE—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 4 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU052406. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 152694; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 152694
    Bt1—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) very cobbly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 5 percent distinct manganese or iron-manganese stains in root channels and/or pores and 6 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 30 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU052407. continuous - phpvsfiid 152695; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 158608; continuous - phpvsfiid 152695; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 158608
    2Bt2—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) extremely cobbly clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 5 percent distinct manganese or iron-manganese stains in root channels and/or pores and 51 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 35 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 35 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU052408. continuous - phpvsfiid 158609; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 158610; continuous - phpvsfiid 158609; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 158610
    2R—81 centimeters (31.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.