IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO027003
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO027003
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - MexPut-09
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0502703
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25824
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 38.9586944
  • Std. Longitude: -92.0805556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T48N
  • Range: R10W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 1,778 feet West and 662 feet South from the North East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO027—Callaway
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO027—Callaway County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-H1—Millersburg NE, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Teresa Gerber
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess derived from mixed over silty and clayey pedisediment derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/5/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12/5/2005
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    0—

    20—203

    20—203

    20—203

    150—

    —20—

    —1—

    —183—

    —183—

    —183—

    —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

    1.5

    —

    —

    278

    —

    340

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005191; observed in push tube
    Btg1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and 40 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented red (10R 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); 65 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 35 percent gray (10YR 5/1) interior silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong fine prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented red (10R 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg3—51 to 91 centimeters (20.1 to 35.8 inches); 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg4—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 40 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg5—127 to 150 centimeters (50.0 to 59.1 inches); 70 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg6—150 to 183 centimeters (59.1 to 72.0 inches); 60 percent gray (10YR 5/1) interior and 40 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silty clay loam; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg7—183 to 203 centimeters (72.0 to 79.9 inches); 60 percent gray (10YR 5/1) interior and 40 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior silty clay; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very 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 dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments.; observed in push tube