IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): VANMETER
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO211061
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO211061
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO21161
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0721161
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25527
  • 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: 40.3139458
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8646927
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T64N
  • Range: R18W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 2,454 feet West and 135 feet North from the South East corner
  • Map Unit: 30213—Vigar loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO211—Sullivan
  • MLRA: 109—Iowa and Missouri Heavy Till Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO211—Sullivan County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40092-C7—Stahl, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Amber Marshaus, David Dowdy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 61
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - VANMETER
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GOSPORT
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey colluvium derived from mixed over clayey residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: noncoherent slight weathered shale, unspecified at 0cm with <10 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: Excello Sh. formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/20/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 40092c7nw
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    GLTR

    ULAM

    Gleditsia triacanthos

    Ulmus americana

    honeylocust

    American elm

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    163 - 163

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    0—8

    8—0

    28—28

    163—163

    163—163

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    —1—

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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

    15

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    261.8

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    350

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face clay; 13 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 49 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003013; observed in push tube
    BA—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face clay; 17 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine faint cylindrical noncoherent cemented dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries throughout and 1 percent fine prominent cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003014; observed in push tube
    2BC1—28 to 86 centimeters (11.0 to 33.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) broken face clay; 9 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 53 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine distinct cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003015; observed in push tube
    2BC2—86 to 163 centimeters (33.9 to 64.2 inches); 70 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) broken face and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face loam; 29 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine distinct cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003016; observed in push tube
    3Cr—163 to 224 centimeters (64.2 to 88.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face loam; 36 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 18 percent clay; massive; firm; 5 percent fine prominent cylindrical extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # MU003017; observed in push tube