IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Townhole
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1996MO119056M
  • User Pedon ID: 1996MO119056
  • User Site Association ID: 8437
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 96-03
  • Transect Stop Number - 5
  • Transect Interval - 528.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9611918
  • 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: 36.7453056
  • Std. Longitude: -94.1725389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 71256—Townhole-Aslinger complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO119—McDonald
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO119—McDonald County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAW, JSE, & KLG.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Townhole
  • PSC - 76 to 127 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Townhole
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/3/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/3/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 8A
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    36—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

    4

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    332

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 20 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 11.0 very fine and fine roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055648
    BA—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 11.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 2 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055649
    Bw1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 11.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU055650. continuous - phpvsfiid 154438; continuous - phpvsfiid 154438
    2Bw2—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); 55 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 45 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) extremely gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 11.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent faint brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) clay films on faces of peds and 5 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats in root channels and/or pores and 15 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) skeletans in root channels and/or pores; 5 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 70 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU055651. patchy - phpvsfiid 154477; patchy - phpvsfiid 154479; patchy - phpvsfiid 154480; patchy - phpvsfiid 154477; patchy - phpvsfiid 154479; patchy - phpvsfiid 154480
    2Bt1—76 to 112 centimeters (29.9 to 44.1 inches); 75 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely gravelly silt loam; massive; very firm; brittle; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent prominent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) skeletans in root channels and/or pores and 5 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films in root channels and/or pores and 40 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) skeletans in root channels and/or pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 70 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU055652. 20% Brittleness; patchy - phpvsfiid 154178; patchy - phpvsfiid 154481; patchy - phpvsfiid 154482; patchy - phpvsfiid 154178; patchy - phpvsfiid 154481; patchy - phpvsfiid 154482
    3Bt2—112 to 135 centimeters (44.1 to 53.1 inches); 55 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 45 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely cobbly silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent prominent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) skeletans in root channels and/or pores and 40 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular black (N 2/0) iron-manganese concretions between peds; 35 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU055653. Gravel Fragments are tripolitic chert.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154179; patchy - phpvsfiid 154180; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154179; patchy - phpvsfiid 154180
    3Bt3—135 to 203 centimeters (53.1 to 79.9 inches); 70 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) cobbly clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) skeletans in root channels and/or pores and 60 percent distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical black (N 2/0) iron-manganese concretions between peds; 30 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments. Lab sample # MU055654. continuous - phpvsfiid 154181; patchy - phpvsfiid 154182; continuous - phpvsfiid 154181; patchy - phpvsfiid 154182