IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowmo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO183001
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO183001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0718301
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25752
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.5618611
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9284444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T44N
  • Range: R1E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 105 feet East and 322 feet North from the South West corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO183—St. Charles
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO183—St. Charles County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38090-E8—Washington East, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ralph Tucker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic 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 #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowmo
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090e8se
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—64

    64—107

    —64—

    —43—
    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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    144.8

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004648; observed in push tube
    A1—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004649; observed in push tube
    A2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004650; observed in push tube
    Bw1—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 40 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face loamy very fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bw2—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); 20 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 80 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    C1—107 to 147 centimeters (42.1 to 57.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face stratified silt loam; friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004653; observed in push tube
    C2—147 to 165 centimeters (57.9 to 65.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face stratified very fine sandy loam; loose; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004654; observed in push tube
    C3—165 to 208 centimeters (65.0 to 81.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face stratified very fine sandy loam; loose; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU004655; observed in push tube