IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO163001
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO163001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2005MO163001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - MexPut-28
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0516301
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25875
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 39.3877222
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3332500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T53N
  • Range: R4W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 2,303 feet West and 410 feet South from the North East corner
  • Location Description: North of Curryville. Jim Hubert Farm.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO163—Pike
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO163—Pike County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39091-D3—Frankford, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Horton, Grant Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • PSC - 23 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Classificaton Date - 11/22/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Holocene Stage silty and clayey loess derived from mixed over Holocene Stage silty and clayey pedisediment derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/22/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39091d3sw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    reduced matrix

    aquic conditions

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—23

    23—203

    23—203

    23—203

    127—

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    —180—

    —180—

    —180—

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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

    2

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    243.5

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005595; observed in push tube
    Btg1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); 90 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine 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; 5 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 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 push tube
    Btg2—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg3—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); 35 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg4—79 to 127 centimeters (31.1 to 50.0 inches); 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face and 15 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 25 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg5—127 to 145 centimeters (50.0 to 57.1 inches); 70 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg6—145 to 203 centimeters (57.1 to 79.9 inches); 70 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments.; observed in push tube