IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alred
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO203075M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO203075M
  • User Site Association ID: 8630
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - shannon-75F3
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9761375
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26429
  • 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: 37.3683806
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3929750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO203—Shannon
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO203—Shannon County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37091-C4—Round Spring, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BM, MS, LT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal over clayey, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic 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 - Alred
  • PSC - 18 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alred
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal over clayey, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 18 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/1997
  • 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: 15 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 49 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 50 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol) and 17 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol)


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/6/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 8
  • 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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    173 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    strongly contrasting particle size class

    albic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    18—173

    56—

    114—140

    173—

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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

    19

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    253

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    95

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly silt loam; strong fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots; 7.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009564
    Bt1—18 to 56 centimeters (7.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 7.0 fine and medium tubular and 0.9 coarse interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009565
    2Bt1—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) gravelly clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.9 coarse roots; 7.0 fine and medium interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter chert fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009566
    2Bt3—91 to 114 centimeters (35.8 to 44.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) very gravelly clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine to coarse roots; 7.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent prominent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU009567
    2Bt4—114 to 140 centimeters (44.9 to 55.1 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 50 percent weak red (10R 4/4) clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine to coarse roots; 0.9 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, nonintersecting slickensides on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent prominent reddish gray (2.5YR 6/1), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU009568
    2Bt5—140 to 173 centimeters (55.1 to 68.1 inches); 90 percent red (10R 4/6) and 10 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) very gravelly clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.9 fine roots; 7.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 75 percent prominent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU009569
    2R—173 centimeters (68.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Fractured chert bed with intermixed red clays.