IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sonsac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2002MO119252M
  • User Pedon ID: 2002MO119252
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 02-01
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0211902
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 36.6281242
  • Std. Longitude: -94.3148422
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 73353—Hailey-Sonsac complex, 35 to 70 percent slopes, very rocky
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO119—McDonald
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO119—McDonald County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAW, ACP
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sonsac
  • PSC - 28 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sonsac
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/28/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly slope alluvium over residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent limestone, cherty at 66cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/28/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    55

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    323

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    75

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face extremely gravelly silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; moderate excavation difficulty; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 30.0 fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 20 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume angular indurated 250-425-610 millimeter chert fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU023449; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239355; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239355
    E—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face extremely cobbly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 fine high-continuity tubular and 6.0 fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 250-425-610 millimeter chert fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU023450
    Bt1—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face extremely cobbly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 fine high-continuity tubular and 6.0 fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct light brown (7.5YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 250-425-610 millimeter chert fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU023451. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239356; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239357; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239356; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 239357
    2Bt2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face extremely stony silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 50 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 75-160-250 millimeter chert fragments and 30 percent by volume flat angular indurated 250-425-610 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # MU023452. continuous - phpvsfiid 239358; continuous - phpvsfiid 239358