IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO205005
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO205005
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T05-205-01
  • Transect Stop Number - 6
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0520505
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25832
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.7220000
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8683611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T57N
  • Range: R9W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 1,066 feet West and 1,985 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39091-F7—Hunnewell, 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 #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • PSC - 10 to 61 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: outwash plain
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • 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—10

    10—203

    —10—

    —193—
    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

    5

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    225.6

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    130

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 25.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005256; observed in push tube
    Btg1—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior clay; weak fine and medium angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 25.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 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 push tube
    Btg2—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg3—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 20.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 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; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg5—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior clay loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; firm; 20.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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
    Btg6—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 30 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior clay loam; weak fine and medium angular blocky, and moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; firm; 25.0 very fine tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark gray (10YR 4/1), 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.; observed in push tube
    Btg7—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior clay loam; weak fine and medium angular blocky, and moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube