IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO027070
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO027070
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2008MO027070
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0802770
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30209
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.7656111
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8033056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1,742 feet West and 37 feet North from the South East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO027—Callaway
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO027—Callaway County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-G7—Reform, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LeAnn Bullard, Mike Chalfant, Amber Marshaus
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aeric Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 70
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aeric Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • PSC - 0 to 0 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: pre-Illinoian Stage fine-silty loess derived from mixed over pre-Illinoian Stage clayey till derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: divide
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pre-illinoian Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/25/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091g7
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rural transportation
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FESTU

    Festuca

    fescue

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    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

    4

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    249.9

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 46 centimeters (0.0 to 18.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent medium faint black (10YR 2/1), moist,; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—46 to 91 centimeters (18.1 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent prominent clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 4/8), 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; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—91 to 168 centimeters (35.8 to 66.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate thin platy structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct clay films and 35 percent faint silt coats; 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; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Btg3—168 to 274 centimeters (66.1 to 107.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent pressure faces and 35 percent prominent clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), 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; 2 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2BC—274 to 396 centimeters (107.9 to 155.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; fine wedge structure; firm; 12 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt—396 to 427 centimeters (155.9 to 168.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; massive; very firm; 1 percent distinct carbonate coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish gray (5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 6 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2BCk—427 to 470 centimeters (168.1 to 185.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face sandy loam; fine wedge structure; very firm; 3 percent distinct clay films and 5 percent distinct carbonate coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish gray (5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 4 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small