IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parsons
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2012MO057001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012MO057001
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 116 A & B - Natric Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0465
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 69581
  • 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: 37.3609611
  • Std. Longitude: -93.9911833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO057—Dade
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO057—Dade County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37093-C8—Kings Point, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JR Perkins, Scott Paine
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Parsons
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, thermic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/2012
  • Classifier - JR Perkins, Scott Paine
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium derived from shale
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/21/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Scott Paine, JR Perkins
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    albic materials

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    reduced matrix

    0—29

    29—48

    29—203

    48—203

    79—203

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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

    1.5

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    339.9

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    175

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; fragments.; observed in push tube
    A—15 to 29 centimeters (5.9 to 11.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; fragments.; observed in push tube
    E—29 to 48 centimeters (11.4 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 25 percent silt coats; 2 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 13N02000; observed in push tube
    Bt—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); 60 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 40 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 20 percent clay films; 5 percent medium light gray (10YR 7/1) clay depletions and 15 percent medium yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Lab sample # 13N02001; observed in push tube
    Btg1—79 to 114 centimeters (31.1 to 44.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 10 percent clay films; 10 percent medium yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; fragments. Lab sample # 13N02002; observed in push tube
    Btg2—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent clay films; 5 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 15 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions; fragments. Lab sample # 13N02003; observed in push tube
    Btg3—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent clay films; 2 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses and 20 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions; 5 percent by volume 2-30-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments. Lab sample # 13N02004; observed in push tube