IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LOWMO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO027005
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO027005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0702705
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25715
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.7067778
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7529167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R7W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 2,432 feet East and 591 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-F7—Mokane East, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Butler, Teresa Gerber, Mike Cook
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • 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
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - LOWMO
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowmo
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood-plain step
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for long periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/16/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091f7ne
  • Surface Water Kind: flooded
  • Surface Water Depth: 15
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—36

    36—86

    168—

    —36—

    —50—

    —1—
    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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    —

    160

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, worm casts throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    A—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, worm casts throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bw1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); 80 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 10 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium prismatic structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 3 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains 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; 5 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, worm casts throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004377; observed in push tube
    Bw2—53 to 86 centimeters (20.9 to 33.9 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium prismatic structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, worm casts throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004378; observed in push tube
    C1—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior stratified very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004379; observed in push tube
    C2—109 to 168 centimeters (42.9 to 66.1 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior stratified silt loam; massive; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004380; observed in push tube
    Ck—168 to 211 centimeters (66.1 to 83.1 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and 40 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior and 10 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior stratified silt loam; massive; very friable; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 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 strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU004381; observed in push tube