IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LOWMO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO183005
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO183005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0718305
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25753
  • 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: 38.5826667
  • Std. Longitude: -90.7944444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T44N
  • Range: R2E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1,492 feet West and 1,090 feet North from the South East 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-E7—Labadie, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Butler, 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 - 3/6/2007
  • 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: linear
  • 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: 3/6/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090e7ne
  • 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—53

    53—99

    119—

    —53—

    —46—

    —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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    —

    143

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    0

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 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; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004656; observed in push tube
    Ap2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004657; observed in push tube
    A—20 to 53 centimeters (7.9 to 20.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004658; observed in push tube
    Bw—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 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 dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004659; observed in push tube
    BC—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine tubular and 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; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004660; observed in push tube
    C—99 to 119 centimeters (39.0 to 46.9 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face stratified very fine sandy loam; massive; 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004661; observed in push tube
    Cg—119 to 157 centimeters (46.9 to 61.8 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 20 percent gray (10YR 5/1) broken face stratified silt loam; massive; 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 and 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 # MU004662; observed in push tube
    2Bg—157 to 218 centimeters (61.8 to 85.8 inches); 80 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face and 20 percent gray (10YR 5/1) broken face silty clay; moderate very fine and fine angular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU004663; observed in push tube