IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO127001
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO127001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T06-127-01
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0612701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25843
  • 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: 39.9462222
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8340833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T59N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1,752 feet East and 688 feet South from the North West corner
  • Location Description: off D hwy in NW corner of the county
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO127—Marion
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO608—Marion and Ralls Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39091-H7—Nelsonville, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Paine
  • 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 - 23 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/24/2006
  • 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: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • 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: 1/24/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39091h7nw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    0—23

    23—132

    23—173

    —23—

    —109—

    —150—
    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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    223.1

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    200

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed silt loam; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005340; observed in push tube
    Btg1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay; firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005341; observed in push tube
    Btg2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silty clay; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 18 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005342; observed in push tube
    Btg3—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 18 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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 black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005343; observed in push tube
    Btg4—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 18 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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 dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005344; observed in push tube
    Btg5—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 18 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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 black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005345; observed in push tube
    2Btg6—107 to 132 centimeters (42.1 to 52.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 18 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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 black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2BCg—132 to 173 centimeters (52.0 to 68.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silt loam; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular 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 (N 2.5/0), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments.; observed in push tube