IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO183013
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO183013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0718313
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25503
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025
  • 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: 38.8992222
  • Std. Longitude: -90.2936389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: 7,185 feet East and 3,139 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: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluvaquentic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Peers (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - GILLIAM
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090h3se
  • 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—56

    56—127

    —56—

    —71—

    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

    129.8

    0

    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; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002861; observed in push tube
    Ap2—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); 60 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 40 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002862; observed in push tube
    A—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002863; observed in push tube
    Bw1—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face silt loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 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 gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU002864; observed in push tube
    Bw2—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face silt loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 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 # MU002865; observed in push tube
    Cg1—127 to 150 centimeters (50.0 to 59.1 inches); 65 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face and 35 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face silt loam; massive; friable; 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 red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Cg2—150 to 173 centimeters (59.1 to 68.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; massive; friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 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.; observed in push tube
    C—173 to 208 centimeters (68.1 to 81.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face very fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube