IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arkana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO091152M
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO091152M
  • User Site Association ID: 8050
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Transect Interval - 100.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9509136
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26462
  • Print Date: 4/20/2026

    • 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: 37.0361500
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8207556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 73226—Ocie-Gatewood complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, stony
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO091—Howell
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO091—Howell County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SVV, MJM,
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkana
  • PSC - 20 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arkana
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium over residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: h slight weathered dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    56 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—56

    56—

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    —-

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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

    9

    —

    —

    366

    —

    270

    1067

    —

    —

    13.3

    23.9

    1.7

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed very gravelly loam; 10 percent sand; 10 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 fine and medium vesicular and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009800
    2Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face clay; 10 percent sand; 55 percent clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; extremely firm*; 0.9 fine to coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent faint black (N 2/0) iron stains on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats throughout; 1 percent fine spherical black (N 2/0) iron-manganese concretions throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009801
    2Bt2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) broken face clay; 5 percent sand; 60 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; extremely firm*; 3.0 fine and medium vesicular and tubular pores; 15 percent prominent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical black (N 2/0) iron-manganese concretions throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009802
    2Bt3—48 to 56 centimeters (18.9 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face very gravelly clay; 15 percent sand; 65 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely firm*; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint black (N 2/0), moist, iron stains on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009803
    R—56 centimeters (22.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Dolomite bedrock.