IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elsah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO011005
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO011005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2005MO011005
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T05MO011002
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Transect Interval - 7.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0501105
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30911
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 37.5160278
  • Std. Longitude: -94.5099167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T32N
  • Range: R33W
  • Section: 24
  • Map Unit: 40039—Barden silt loam, 1 to 5 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO011—Barton
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO011—Barton County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-E5—Liberal, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Craig Chatfield
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, smectitic, active, thermic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elsah
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tullahasee
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 22 percent of Control section clay


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 203cm
  • Geology: Pennsylvanian group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/31/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AMFR

    COAM2

    HEMO2

    PRSE2

    RHCO

    RHGL

    SCNU

    SIIN2

    SPPE

    ULRU

    VIAE

    Amorpha fruticosa

    Cornus amomum

    Helianthus mollis

    Prunus serotina

    Rhus copallinum

    Rhus glabra

    Schrankia nuttallii

    Silphium integrifolium

    Spartina pectinata

    Ulmus rubra

    Vitis aestivalis

    false indigo bush

    silky dogwood

    ashy sunflower

    black cherry

    winged sumac

    smooth sumac

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    wholeleaf rosinweed

    prairie cordgrass

    slippery elm

    summer grape

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

    ochric epipedon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—122

    165—203

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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

    2.5

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    288

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    150

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    A1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior gravelly silt loam; 21 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 25 percent clay; granular structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent iron-manganese masses; 15 percent by volume 5-25-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026405; moist when described; observed in auger, screw
    A2—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silt loam; 10 percent sand; 67 percent silt; 23 percent clay; granular structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent faint skeletans; 10 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026406; moist when described; observed in auger, screw. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 294892; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 294892
    A3—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior silt loam; 17 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 25 percent clay; granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent faint skeletans; 20 percent iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026407; moist when described; observed in auger, screw. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 294893; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 294893
    A4—79 to 122 centimeters (31.1 to 48.0 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior very gravelly clay loam; 25 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 29 percent clay; granular structure; friable; 2 percent faint skeletans; 25 percent iron-manganese masses; 35 percent by volume 5-25-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026408; moist when described; observed in auger, screw. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 294894; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 294894
    2Btb1—122 to 165 centimeters (48.0 to 65.0 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) exterior and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior loam; 42 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026409; moist when described; observed in auger, screw
    2Cr—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior clay loam; 44 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 28 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026410; moist when described; observed in auger, screw
    2R—203 to 203 centimeters (79.9 to 79.9 inches); strongly coherent; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, screw