IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharpsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957MO025006
  • User Pedon ID: S1957MO025006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2722
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37304
  • 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: 39.7389183
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8360519
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 57N
  • Range: 26W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: Southeast corner of SW 1/4 of NE 1/4 of NE 1/4
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO025—Caldwell
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO025—Caldwell County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39093-F7—Flat Creek, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. S. Allen, F. J. Carlisle, H. E. Grogger, Robert Hamby, and Ed Hughes
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharpsburg
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    A11—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium and coarse granular, and weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A21355
    A12—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A21356
    B1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A21357. patchy - phpvsfiid 192281; patchy - phpvsfiid 192281
    B21—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A21358. color is apparently due to physical mixing of materials; kneaded moist color is dark brown (10YR 3/3).; continuous - phpvsfiid 176824; continuous - phpvsfiid 176824
    B22—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to coarse angular blocky parts to strong medium and coarse prismatic structure; firm; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A21359. kneaded moist color is dark brown to brown (10YR 4/3); the faces of prisms and coarse blocks are dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) in color; few fine soft dark oxide accumulations are present.; continuous - phpvsfiid 176825; continuous - phpvsfiid 176825
    B31—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) mottles; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) coats and dark gray (10YR 4/1) and clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A21360. common soft dark oxide concretions 2 to 3 mm. in diameter.; continuous - phpvsfiid 176828; continuous - phpvsfiid 176828
    B32—107 to 142 centimeters (42.1 to 55.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 3 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A21361. prism faces predominantly dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) to grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2); tubular pores .07 to 2 mm. in diameter are common and usually lined with very dark gray clay films; few fine dark soft oxide accumulations.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176829; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 176829
    D?—142 to 193 centimeters (55.9 to 76.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed and brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed silty clay loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine and medium distinct and dark gray (10YR 4/1) mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A21362. very dark gray to black clay films line tubular pores .07 to 2 mm. in diameter; few fine soft dark oxide accumulations.; continuous - phpvsfiid 176830; continuous - phpvsfiid 176830
    193 to 211 centimeters (76.0 to 83.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silty clay; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine faint mottles; fragments. Lab sample # 40A21363
    213 centimeters (83.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A21364. Firm limestone bedrock.