IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CERESCO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2003MO183006
  • User Pedon ID: 2003MO183006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0318306
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 26207
  • Print Date: 4/15/2025

    • 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: 38.8308611
  • Std. Longitude: -90.1281944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R8E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 404 feet East and 2,139 feet South from the North West corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO183—St. Charles
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO183—St. Charles County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38090-G2—Columbia Bottom, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluvaquentic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - CERESCO
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - WALDRON
  • Classificaton Date - 7/29/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Holocene Stage silty alluvium derived from mixed over Holocene Stage sandy alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood-plain step
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/29/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090g2ne
  • Surface Water Kind: flooded
  • Surface Water Depth: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—36

    18—36

    18—269

    —36—

    —18—

    —251—
    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

    8

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    125

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    280

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); 65 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 35 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007912; observed in push tube
    Bg—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007913; observed in push tube
    Cg1—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 50 percent gray (10YR 5/1) broken face stratified very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007914; observed in push tube
    Cg2—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); 34 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face and 33 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 33 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face stratified very fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007915; observed in push tube
    Cg3—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face stratified very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007916; observed in push tube
    Cg4—122 to 140 centimeters (48.0 to 55.1 inches); 33 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face and 33 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 34 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face stratified very fine sandy loam; lenticular platy structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007917; observed in push tube
    Cg5—140 to 163 centimeters (55.1 to 64.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face stratified silt loam; massive; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007918; observed in push tube
    Cg6—163 to 203 centimeters (64.2 to 79.9 inches); 34 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) broken face and 33 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 33 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face stratified very fine sand; massive; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU007919; observed in push tube
    Cg7—203 to 269 centimeters (79.9 to 105.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face stratified silty clay loam; massive; firm; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dusky red (10R 3/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU007920; observed in push tube