IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Viraton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO091270M
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO091270
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 59C-1
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Transect Interval - 100.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9509140
  • 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: 36.4994010
  • Std. Longitude: -92.1146010
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 73198—Gressy-Viraton complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes73198—Gressy-Viraton complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO091—Howell
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO091—Howell County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36092-D1—Gepp, Arkansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MJM, SFP, SVV
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • 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 - Viraton
  • PSC - 15 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/5/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over pedisediment over residuum weathered from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/5/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    41 - 56

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—15

    15—153

    41—56

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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

    3

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    250

    —

    150

    1067

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    13.3

    23.9

    1.7

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; common (3.0) very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU053087
    Bt1—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.5 medium tubular and 1.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU053088
    Bt2—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) gravelly silt loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) very fine and fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine to coarse vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU053089
    2Btx—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) extremely gravelly clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; few (0.5) fine roots between peds; 3.0 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 65 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU053090. 40 percent brittle
    3Bt1—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); 90 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3) extremely gravelly clay; strong very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium vesicular and tubular pores; 60 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat angular 150-250-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU053091
    3Bt2—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); 90 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.1 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU053092
    3Bt3—122 to 153 centimeters (48.0 to 60.2 inches); 90 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) and 10 percent yellow (10YR 7/8) broken face clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.1 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # MU053093