IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Opequon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO153188M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO153188
  • User Site Association ID: 7723
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 102
  • Transect Stop Number - 10
  • Transect Interval - 250.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9715328
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 36.6928444
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5841972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T23N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 850 feet E and 900 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 850 feet east and 900 feet south of the NW corner of Sec. 11, T. 23 N., R. 15 W.
  • Map Unit: 73225—Ocie-Gatewood complex, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO153—Ozark
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO153—Ozark County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BF, GC, KS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: variant
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Opequon
  • PSC - 18 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Opequon
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 43.400002 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 50.8 cm of Depth to bedrock


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum and/or slope alluvium
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/21/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4-2
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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—18

    18—43

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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

    6

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    312

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) extremely gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots; 7.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU058523
    E—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots; 7.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) organic stains throughout; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU058524
    Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); 75 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU058525
    2Bt2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 50 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent fine iron-manganese masses; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU058526
    2Cr—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.
    2R—51 centimeters (20.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.