IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowmo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2009MO183015
  • User Pedon ID: 2009MO183015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0918315
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25716
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.8246389
  • Std. Longitude: -90.1846667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • 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-G2—Columbia Bottom, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Butler, Mike Cook
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 315
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowmo
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowmo
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/2009
  • 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: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for long periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090g2
  • 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—36

    36—76

    —36—

    —40—
    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

    —

    —

    127.4

    —

    0

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004391; observed in push tube
    A—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); 60 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and 40 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004392; observed in push tube
    Bw—36 to 76 centimeters (14.2 to 29.9 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior stratified stratified very fine sandy loam to silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    C1—76 to 119 centimeters (29.9 to 46.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior loam; massive; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    C2—119 to 170 centimeters (46.9 to 66.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    C3—170 to 208 centimeters (66.9 to 81.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior stratified very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube