IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LOWMO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO183012
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO183012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0718312
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25444
  • 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: 38.9035278
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3147222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: 1,142 feet East and 1,745 feet South from the North West corner of Survey 1838,
  • 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-H3—Elsah, Illinois
  • 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 #: 12
  • 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 - 6/13/2007
  • 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
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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: 6/13/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090h3sw
  • 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—41

    41—140

    —41—

    —99—

    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

    131.4

    0

    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; very fine sandy loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002476; observed in push tube
    A—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002477; observed in push tube
    Bw1—41 to 74 centimeters (16.1 to 29.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002478; observed in push tube
    Bw2—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very 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; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002479; observed in push tube
    Bw3—89 to 112 centimeters (35.0 to 44.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face very fine sandy loam; weak 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; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002480; observed in push tube
    Bw4—112 to 140 centimeters (44.1 to 55.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak 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; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002481; observed in push tube
    C1—140 to 183 centimeters (55.1 to 72.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face stratified very fine sandy loam; very friable; 3.0 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002482; observed in push tube
    C2—183 to 216 centimeters (72.0 to 85.0 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face and 20 percent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face and 30 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) broken face stratified silt loam; friable; 3.0 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; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU002483; observed in push tube