IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Creldon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO109050M
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO109050
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0810950
  • 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: 37.0793056
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8868889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO109—Lawrence
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO606—Greene and Lawrence Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37093-A8—Stotts City, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Preston, Scott Paine, Katie Philbrick
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 50
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Creldon
  • PSC - 20 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Creldon
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/4/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock over silty pedisediment derived from sedimentary rock over Burlington Limestone silty residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Burlington Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/4/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37093a8
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    48 - 142

    - 94 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—15

    15—160

    48—142

    89—142

    142—160

    —15—

    —145—

    —94—

    —53—

    —18—
    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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    374.6

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    83

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior silt loam; 85 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002192; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face silt loam; 77 percent silt; 23 percent clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bt2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) broken face silty clay loam; 67 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bt3—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; 64 percent silt; 36 percent clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btx—53 to 124 centimeters (20.9 to 48.8 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face and 50 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; 74 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in push tube
    3Bt—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) broken face gravelly silty clay loam; 70 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded extremely weakly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments.; observed in push tube