IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): VIRATON

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: 2006MO105026

User Pedon ID: S2006MO105026

Vegetation Plot ID: 2006MO10526

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 06N0816

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: 37.5810833

Std. Longitude: -92.6717778

Datum: WGS84

Township: T33N

Range: R16W

Section: 15

PLSS Details: 1171 feet W and 538 feet S of the NE corner

Country: US—United States

State: Missouri

County: MO105—Laclede

MLRA: 116A—Ozark Highland

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO105—Laclede County, Missouri

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37092-E6—Brush Creek, Missouri

PEDON

Describers Name: Allan Johnston, Gene Campbell, Duane Viele

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description

Pedon Purpose: research site

Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon

Pedon #: 26

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - VIRATON

Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs

Taxon Kind - series

PSC - 19 to 63 cm.

Classificaton Date - 4/18/2006

Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed

Landscape: upland

Landform: interfluve

Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve

Hill Slope Profile: shoulder

Slope Position: upper third

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: convex

Slope Shape Down: linear

Runoff: high

Drainage Class: moderately well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Geology: Roubidoux Formation formation.

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 4/18/2006 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID: 37092e6ne

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

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
LOAR10	Lolium arundinaceum	tall fescue	—	—	—

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
fragipan	—	63 -	- 1 -

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon argillic horizon fragipan	0—19 19—65 63—	—19— —46— —1—

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
4	—	—	409.7	—	225	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Ap—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine and 10.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03387; observed in pit, small

AB—9 to 19 centimeters (3.5 to 7.5 inches); 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N03388; observed in pit, small

Bt1—19 to 31 centimeters (7.5 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03389; observed in pit, small

Bt2—31 to 42 centimeters (12.2 to 16.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03390; observed in pit, small

Bt3—42 to 52 centimeters (16.5 to 20.5 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03391; observed in pit, small

Bt4—52 to 63 centimeters (20.5 to 24.8 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N03392; observed in pit, small

2Btx—63 to 65 centimeters (24.8 to 25.6 inches); brittle; fragments.; observed in pit, small