IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crackerneck
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO119116M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO119116
  • User Site Association ID: 8451
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 96-16
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Transect Interval - 240.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9611978
  • 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: 36.6530838
  • Std. Longitude: -94.4945145
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 70069—Jollymill-Crackerneck complex, karst, 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: KLG,JAW,MDO
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudults
  • 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 - Crackerneck
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crackerneck
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/14/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium and/or residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • 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: 1/14/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6C
  • 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—25

    25—211

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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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    340

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    336

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 35.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013177. 20% tripolitic.
    E—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very channery silt; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 25.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 15.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) organic stains on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 45 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013178. 20% tripolitic.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159417; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159417
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 40 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) extremely gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 25.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 15.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013179. 20% of rounded gravel is tripolitic.
    Bt2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) very gravelly silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 15.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 20 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 40 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013180. Rounded gravel is tripolitic.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159418; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 159418
    2Bt3—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) very gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 8.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 2 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent fine spherical black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses throughout; 58 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013181. 40% of chert is tripolitic.; patchy - phpvsfiid 159419; patchy - phpvsfiid 159419
    2Bt4—66 to 107 centimeters (26.0 to 42.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) cobbly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 3.0 very fine roots in cracks; 10.0 very fine interstitial pores; 2 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films in root channels and/or pores and 20 percent distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) skeletans on faces of peds and 60 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 55 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013182. 25% brittleness. Cracks filled with soil material average about 2 inches apart. Most of the pores are in the tripolitic chert. Gravel is tripolitic.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154586; continuous - phpvsfiid 154585; patchy - phpvsfiid 154587; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154586; continuous - phpvsfiid 154585; patchy - phpvsfiid 154587
    3Bt5—107 to 196 centimeters (42.1 to 77.2 inches); 60 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and 10 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots in cracks; 10.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) skeletans on faces of peds and in pores and 50 percent prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 60 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU013183. Chert is tripolitic. Rock fragments are bedded horizontally with vertical cracks filled with soil material. Most of the pores are in the tripolitic chert.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154600; continuous - phpvsfiid 154599; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154600; continuous - phpvsfiid 154599
    3Bt6—196 to 211 centimeters (77.2 to 83.1 inches); 75 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and 20 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) and 5 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) very cobbly clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 50 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments. Lab sample # MU013184. Gravel is tripolitic chert.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154601; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 154601