IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Viraton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO167050M
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO167050
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0816750
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 37.4851110
  • Std. Longitude: -93.2018890
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO167—Polk
  • MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO167—Polk County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37093-D2—Fair Grove, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Paine, John Preston, Katie Philbrick, Allan Peer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, superactive, 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 - Viraton
  • PSC - 20 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Viraton
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/3/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37093d2
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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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    58 - 86

    - 28 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    fragic soil properties

    fragipan

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    20—160

    41—86

    41—58

    58—86

    86—160

    —20—

    —140—

    —45—

    —17—

    —28—

    —74—
    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

    2.5

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    357.8

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    123

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior silt loam; 86 percent silt; 14 percent clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU008745; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face loam; 74 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btx1—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face extremely gravelly loam; 79 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btx2—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face and 50 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) broken face extremely gravelly loam; 76 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter chert fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    3Bt2—86 to 119 centimeters (33.9 to 46.9 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) broken face gravelly clay; 50 percent silt; 50 percent clay; moderate angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark gray (5YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 16 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments.; observed in push tube
    3Bt1—119 to 160 centimeters (46.9 to 63.0 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) broken face clay; 25 percent silt; 75 percent clay; moderate angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark gray (5YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube