IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gasconade
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO203067M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO203067M
  • User Site Association ID: 8622
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - shannon-74F3
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9761367
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31652
  • 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: 37.3755611
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3874111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO203—Shannon
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO203—Shannon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37091-D4—Gladden, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RLT,MS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gasconade
  • PSC - 10 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gasconade
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • Field Measured Properties: 70 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 68 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol)


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    43 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—10

    10—43

    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

    23

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    250

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    160

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) gravelly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 7.0 fine roots; 7.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU059551
    Bt1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium and coarse roots and 7.0 fine roots; 7.0 fine vesicular pores; 35 percent distinct weak red (2.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU059552
    Bt2—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); 70 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) and 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) extremely cobbly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 80 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU059553
    R—43 centimeters (16.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Dolomite bedrock.