IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO139008
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO139008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2005MO139008
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - MexPut-33
  • Transect Stop Number - 9
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0513908
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25966
  • 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: 38.9842778
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3546389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T49N
  • Range: R4W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 233 feet East and 2,399 feet North from the South West corner
  • Location Description: South of Bellflower
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO139—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO603—Montgomery and Warren Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-H3—Bellflower South, Missouri
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Knelle, John Horton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 8
  • 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 - PUTNAM
  • Classificaton Date - 12/27/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • 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: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/27/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091h3nw
  • 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

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

    ochric epipedon

    reduced matrix

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    0—157

    0—157

    20—157

    99—

    —20—

    —157—

    —157—

    —137—

    —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

    0.5

    237.7

    130

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 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; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU006244; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), 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; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); 30 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face and 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 70 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), 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; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btg3—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 70 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btg4—64 to 99 centimeters (25.2 to 39.0 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Btg5—99 to 157 centimeters (39.0 to 61.8 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 12 percent faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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.; observed in pit, small