IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rueter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO043028M
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO043028
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2008MO043028
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0804328
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 37.0815000
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4271389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T28N
  • Range: R23W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet W and 27 feet N of the SE corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO043—Christian
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPM—Springfield, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO043—Christian County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37093-A4—Republic, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jeff Woodward, Brian Fredrick, Dick Henderson, Wyn Kelley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rueter
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rueter
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/16/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: gravelly slope alluvium derived from mixed over clayey residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Reeds Spring-elsey Formations formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/16/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37093a4ne
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—152

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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

    9.8

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    341.4

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    142

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed silt loam; 13 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 17 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine high-continuity tubular and 10.0 fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 12 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006829; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face gravelly silt loam; 12 percent sand; 71 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular and 10.0 fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 5 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006830; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 30 percent 5Y 4/6 (5Y 4/6) broken face extremely gravelly silt loam; 19 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 15 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 70 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006831; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face extremely gravelly clay loam; 22 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 32 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular and 10.0 fine high-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 20 percent distinct red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 75 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006832; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face extremely gravelly clay loam; 28 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 20 percent prominent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 25 percent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 70 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006833; observed in pit, small
    2Bt5—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face very gravelly clay; 15 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine low-continuity interstitial pores; 20 percent prominent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 25 percent red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 55 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU006834; observed in pit, small