IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO027089
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO027089
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 27B-1
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0602789
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25839
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 38.7655000
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7901389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 1,999 feet East and 89 feet North from the South West corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO027—Callaway
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO027—Callaway County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-G7—Reform, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Caldwell, David Dowdy, Larry Slechta, Amber Marshaus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, superactive, 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 #: 89
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • PSC - 23 to 74 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 - 7/27/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess derived from mixed over silty and clayey pedisediment derived from mixed
  • 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: medium
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pre-illinoian Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091g7se
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    23—208

    —23—

    —185—
    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

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    256.9

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    190

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak thin platy structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005307; observed in push tube
    Ap2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak thin platy structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005308; observed in push tube
    Btg1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay; 44 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 medium tubular pores; 35 percent prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films and 35 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005309; observed in push tube
    Btg2—38 to 79 centimeters (15.0 to 31.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats and 70 percent prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films; 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 dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 12 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist,; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005310; observed in push tube
    2Bt1—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint clay films and 70 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), 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; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Bt2—102 to 163 centimeters (40.2 to 64.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint clay films and 70 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats; 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; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Bt3—163 to 198 centimeters (64.2 to 78.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, silt coats and 35 percent faint clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist,; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—198 to 208 centimeters (78.0 to 81.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, silt coats and 35 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist,; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU005315; observed in push tube