IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liberal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO011011
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO011011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2005MO011011
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T05MO011002
  • Transect Stop Number - 9
  • Transect Interval - 7.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0501111
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30908
  • 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: 37.5162778
  • Std. Longitude: -94.5102500
  • 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: Aaron Woods
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Aquollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Liberal
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hepler
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 28.25 percent of Control section clay


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium over residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Geology: Pennsylvanian group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/2005 (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

    mollic epipedon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—203

    20—43

    43—168

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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

    3

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    288.6

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    50

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior silt loam; 6 percent sand; 74 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026422; moist when described; observed in push tube
    BA—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior silt loam; 10 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026423; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—43 to 81 centimeters (16.9 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior silty clay loam; 9 percent sand; 66 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, clay films; 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026424; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt2—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); 90 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 24 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films; 15 percent red (2.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026425; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt3—122 to 142 centimeters (48.0 to 55.9 inches); 90 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 38 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 10 percent iron-manganese concretions and 15 percent manganese coatings and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026426; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—142 to 168 centimeters (55.9 to 66.1 inches); 90 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 40 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films; 15 percent manganese coatings and 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026427; moist when described; observed in push tube
    3Cr—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior and 30 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior and 20 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) exterior and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1) exterior loam; 52 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 28 percent clay; massive; firm; 10 percent by volume flat 5-35-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026428; moist when described; observed in push tube