IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): DESIOUX
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO183035
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO183035
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0718335
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25707
  • 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: 38.8672222
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4838611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47N
  • Range: R5E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 2,248 feet East and 452 feet South from the North West 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: Teresa Gerber, Ralph Tucker, Mike Cook, Keith Knelle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 35
  • 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 - 12/12/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/12/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090g4nw
  • 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 sheet
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—76

    76—203

    —76—

    —127—

    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

    133.8

    0

    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face very fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # MU004315; observed in push tube
    Ap2—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face very fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # MU004316; observed in push tube
    Bw1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments.; observed in push tube
    Bw2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); 70 percent black (10YR 2/1) broken face and 30 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments.; observed in push tube
    Bw3—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); 50 percent black (10YR 2/1) broken face and 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments.; observed in push tube
    Bw4—102 to 145 centimeters (40.2 to 57.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face very fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments.; observed in push tube
    Bw5—145 to 203 centimeters (57.1 to 79.9 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face and 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments.; observed in push tube