IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): DESIOUX
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO183040
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO183040
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0718340
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25709
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.8682778
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4385556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T48N
  • Range: R5E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 839 feet West and 89 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-G4—Saint Charles, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Butler, Mike Cook
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, 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 #: 40
  • 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 - 10/12/2007
  • 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: 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: 10/12/2007 (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—64

    64—157

    —64—

    —93—
    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

    0.5

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    —

    133.8

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    0

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    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004330; observed in push tube
    Ap2—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; moderate fine 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. Lab sample # MU004331; observed in push tube
    A—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); 60 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 40 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic 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 wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU004332; observed in push tube
    Bw1—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004333; observed in push tube
    Bw2—81 to 117 centimeters (31.9 to 46.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 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. Lab sample # MU004334; observed in push tube
    Bw3—117 to 157 centimeters (46.1 to 61.8 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 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. Lab sample # MU004335; observed in push tube
    2C—157 to 211 centimeters (61.8 to 83.1 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior fine sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU004336; observed in push tube