IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowmo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO089050
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO089050
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0808950
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25566
  • 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: 38.9897778
  • Std. Longitude: -92.6266667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T48N
  • Range: R15W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 606 feet West and 688 feet South from the North East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO089—Howard
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO089—Howard County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-H6—Boonville, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Caldwell, LeAnn Bullard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 50
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowmo
  • 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 - HAYNIE
  • Classificaton Date - 12/27/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: natural levee
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for long periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/27/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38092h6ne
  • 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—38

    38—53

    —38—

    —15—
    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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    176.5

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 10.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003291; observed in push tube
    A—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 10.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003292; observed in push tube
    Bw—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 10.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003293; observed in push tube
    C1—53 to 109 centimeters (20.9 to 42.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face stratified loam; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine low-continuity tubular and 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003294; observed in push tube
    C2—109 to 127 centimeters (42.9 to 50.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay; massive; firm; 10.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 10.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003296; observed in push tube
    C3—127 to 147 centimeters (50.0 to 57.9 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 20 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face stratified silt loam; massive; friable; 10.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 10.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU003297; observed in push tube
    C4—147 to 203 centimeters (57.9 to 79.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face stratified silty clay loam; massive; friable; 10.0 very fine low-continuity tubular and 10.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU003298; observed in push tube