IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liberal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO011014
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO011014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2005MO011014
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T05MO011003
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Transect Interval - 45.7
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0501114
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30906
  • 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: 37.5165556
  • Std. Longitude: -94.5013889
  • 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, mixed, active, thermic Aquic 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 - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Liberal
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Bedrock: indurated shale, unspecified at 185cm
  • Geology: Pennsylvanian group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/2005 (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

    APFL

    DEIL

    FRAGA

    HEMO2

    PYTE

    RHCO

    SCNU

    SCSC

    SOGI

    SONU2

    SPPE

    VEBA

    Apocynum xfloribundum [androsaemifolium x cannabinum]

    Desmanthus illinoensis

    Fragaria

    Helianthus mollis

    Pycnanthemum tenuifolium

    Rhus copallinum

    Schrankia nuttallii

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    Solidago gigantea

    Sorghastrum nutans

    Spartina pectinata

    Vernonia baldwinii

    APOCYNUM FLORIBUNDUM

    Illinois bundleflower

    strawberry

    ashy sunflower

    narrowleaf mountainmint

    winged sumac

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    little bluestem

    giant goldenrod

    Indiangrass

    prairie cordgrass

    Baldwin's ironweed

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

    ochric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    paralithic materials

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—38

    0—185

    38—114

    38—114

    114—185

    114—114

    185—

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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

    1

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    290.3

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silt loam; granular structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026435; moist when described; observed in push tube
    BA—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior gravelly silt loam; subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 10 percent skeletans; 1 percent manganese coatings and 10 percent iron-manganese masses; 15 percent by volume 5-20-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026436; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) exterior and 10 percent gray (7.5YR 5/1) exterior silty clay loam; angular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 fine roots throughout; 10 percent skeletans; 10 percent iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume 5-20-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026437; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Bt2—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior and 10 percent dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) exterior silty clay loam; angular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 fine roots throughout; 25 percent skeletans; 10 percent manganese coatings on surfaces along root channels and 30 percent iron-manganese masses; 10 percent by volume 5-20-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026438; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Bt3—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior and 10 percent dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) exterior silty clay; subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent skeletans; 35 percent iron-manganese masses; 5 percent by volume 5-20-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026439; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Cr—114 to 185 centimeters (44.9 to 72.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior clay; platy structure; very firm; 5 percent iron-manganese masses and 40 percent manganese coatings; fragments. Lab sample # MU026440; moist when described; observed in push tube
    3R—185 to 203 centimeters (72.8 to 79.9 inches); fragments.; observed in push tube