IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO113004
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO113004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2005MO113004
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - MexPut-32
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0511304
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25828
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.2002500
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9908611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T51N
  • Range: R1W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 308 feet West and 2,140 feet North from the South East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO113—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO113—Lincoln County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39090-B8—Auburn, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Teresa Gerber, Ralph Tucker
  • 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 #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • PSC - 18 to 69 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 - 11/9/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Holocene Stage silty and clayey loess derived from mixed over Holocene Stage silty and clayey pedisediment derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • 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: 11/9/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39090b8nw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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 sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    reduced matrix

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—18

    18—203

    18—203

    18—203

    104—

    —18—

    —185—

    —185—

    —185—

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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

    4

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    247.5

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    122

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005225; observed in push tube
    Btg1—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 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
    Btg2—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 12 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg3—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); 55 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 25 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg4—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg5—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg6—104 to 165 centimeters (40.9 to 65.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 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—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) broken face silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments.; observed in push tube