IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO205001
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO205001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T05-205-01
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0520501
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25830
  • 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: 39.7173611
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8667778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T57N
  • Range: R9W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 603 feet West and 309 feet North from the South East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO205—Shelby
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO602—Knox, Monroe, and Shelby Counties, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joseph Dyer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/18/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39091f7nw
  • 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 gully
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—203

    —25—

    —178—
    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

    3

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    221.3

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed silt loam; 100 percent silt; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005240; observed in push tube
    BE—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); 60 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) interior and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay loam; 100 percent silt; weak fine and medium prismatic structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), 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 and 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
    Btg—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silty clay; 100 percent silt; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 35 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bt—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay; 100 percent silt; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 35 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg1—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); 60 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; 100 percent silt; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 5/1), 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. Lab sample # MU005244; observed in push tube
    Btg2—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); 60 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior clay loam; 100 percent silt; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 35 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 5/1), 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. Lab sample # MU005245; observed in push tube
    Btg3—89 to 122 centimeters (35.0 to 48.0 inches); 60 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) interior and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior clay; 100 percent silt; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 5/1), 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. Lab sample # MU005246; observed in push tube
    Btg4—122 to 203 centimeters (48.0 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior clay; 100 percent silt; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), 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. Lab sample # MU005247; observed in push tube