IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): DESIOUX
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO183031
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO183031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0718331
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25698
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.8665833
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4372500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R5E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 456 feet West and 521 feet South from the North 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-G4—Saint Charles, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Butler, Mike Cook, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 31
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - DESIOUX
  • 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 - Lomax
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/2007
  • 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: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090g4ne
  • 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—69

    69—208

    196—

    —69—

    —139—

    —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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    134.7

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004246; observed in push tube
    A1—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); 70 percent black (10YR 2/1) broken face and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    A2—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 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; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bw1—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); 70 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004249; observed in push tube
    Bw2—84 to 114 centimeters (33.1 to 44.9 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004250; observed in push tube
    Bw3—114 to 160 centimeters (44.9 to 63.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004251; observed in push tube
    Bw4—160 to 196 centimeters (63.0 to 77.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004252; observed in push tube
    Bw5—196 to 208 centimeters (77.2 to 81.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; 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 and 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 dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU004253; observed in push tube