IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Knobby
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO051109
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO051109
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9705103
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33561
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.4798453
  • Std. Longitude: -92.3956837
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO051—Cole
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GDC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Knobby
  • PSC - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/17/2014
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moko
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy colluvium and/or residuum weathered from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6-34
  • 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: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—30

    30—0

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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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    226

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    150

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 45 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056962
    A2—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 5 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 40 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056963
    R—30 centimeters (11.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.