IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): enceptisol
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO027084
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO027084
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO02784
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 13F-1
  • Transect Stop Number - 9
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0602784
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25480
  • Print Date: 4/12/2026

    • 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: 38.7555278
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7606389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 82 feet West and 2,081 feet North from the South East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO027—Callaway
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO027—Callaway County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-G7—Reform, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wyn Kelley, Amber Marshaus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 84
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - enceptisol
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/2014
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gasconade
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 18 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy colluvium and/or residuum weathered from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated moderate weathered limestone, unspecified at 18cm with <10 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: Burlington Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/29/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091g7se
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACER

    Acer

    maple

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    18 -

    - 1 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—18

    18—

    —5—

    —13—

    —1—
    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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    232

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    120

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU002696; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 35 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 25 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt irregular boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    R—18 centimeters (7.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket