IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowmo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO183004
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO183004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0718304
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25442
  • 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: 38.6323611
  • Std. Longitude: -90.7697778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: 377 feet West and 436 feet South from the North East corner of Survey 14,
  • 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-F7—Defiance, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ralph Tucker
  • 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 #: 4
  • 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 - EUDORA
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/2007
  • 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: 6/11/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090f7se
  • 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

    0—30

    30—213

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    —183—
    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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    142

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    0

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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002461; observed in push tube
    Ap2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002462; observed in push tube
    Bw1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002463; observed in push tube
    Bw2—48 to 86 centimeters (18.9 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002464; observed in push tube
    Bw3—86 to 150 centimeters (33.9 to 59.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face very fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002465; observed in push tube
    Bw4—150 to 170 centimeters (59.1 to 66.9 inches); 70 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face and 30 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 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; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002466; observed in push tube
    Bw5—170 to 188 centimeters (66.9 to 74.0 inches); 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 30 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 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; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002467; observed in push tube
    Bw6—188 to 213 centimeters (74.0 to 83.9 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 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; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU002468; observed in push tube