IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO139066
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO139066
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0613966
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30314
  • 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: 38.8746111
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5146944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R5W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1,473 feet West and 1,272 feet South from the North East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO139—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO603—Montgomery and Warren Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-G5—Americus, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Chalfant, Amber Marshaus, John Horton, Wyn Kelley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aeric 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 #: 66
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aeric Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • PSC - 0 to 0 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/23/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/23/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091g5ne
  • 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
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027870; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 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; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027871; observed in pit, small
    2Btg—56 to 190 centimeters (22.0 to 74.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 12 percent faint light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, skeletans and 70 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 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; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027872; observed in pit, small
    3Btg—190 to 366 centimeters (74.8 to 144.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) broken face silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and prismatic structure; firm; 12 percent faint light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, silt coats and 70 percent faint gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films; 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; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027873; observed in pit, small
    3Bkb1—366 to 427 centimeters (144.1 to 168.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate thin prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate coats; 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; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3Bkb2—427 to 564 centimeters (168.1 to 222.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate thick prismatic structure; very firm; 12 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 5-?-20 millimeter chert fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3Bkb3—564 to 579 centimeters (222.0 to 228.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; massive; very firm; 12 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), 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; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small