IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gasconade
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO203085M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO203085M
  • User Site Association ID: 8653
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - shannon-87F1
  • Transect Stop Number - 5
  • Transect Interval - 200.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9761385
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31640
  • 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: 37.3041667
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4058083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T30N
  • Range: R4W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1380 feet E and 1820 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 1,380 feet east and 1,820 feet north of the southwest corner of sec. 8, T. 30 N., R. 4 W.
  • 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: LT, BM, MS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gasconade
  • PSC - 25 to 48 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 - 25 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/1997
  • 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: 54 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 35 Percent rock fragments in the control section (vol)


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/26/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 8
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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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    48 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    2—23

    48—

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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

    54

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    244

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    306

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU059622
    A—2 to 23 centimeters (0.8 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; gravelly clay; moderate medium granular structure; firm; 7.0 fine to coarse roots; 7.0 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU64613
    Bw1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) 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 very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU059623
    Bw2—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; very gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 7.0 fine vesicular pores; 35 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 55 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU059624
    R—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.