IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Opequon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO123006M
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO123006M
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9512306
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31959
  • 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: 37.5354996
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3099442
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 50' S of N edge of 150' Wide strip of timber 450' E of wesst fence.
  • Map Unit: 32C—Caneyville silt loam, 5 to 9 percent slopes73149—Caneyville-Bucklick complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO123—Madison
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO123—Madison County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37090-E3—Fredericktown, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KEB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, active, mesic Lithic 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 - Opequon
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/2021
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gasconade
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 81 Cation exchange capacity to clay ratio


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone) at 41cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/31/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: C-4
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    bedrock, lithic

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    41 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—41

    8—41

    41—

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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

    5

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    230

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    250

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 12.0 very fine and fine roots; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU053469
    A2—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); 60 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) and 40 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 7.0 very fine and fine roots and 2.0 medium roots; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU053470
    A3—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) cobbly silty clay loam; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine and medium roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 25 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU053471
    R—41 centimeters (16.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.