IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO163002
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO163002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2005MO163002
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - MexPut-30
  • Transect Stop Number - 5
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0516302
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28139
  • 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: 39.1510278
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3546944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T51N
  • Range: R4W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1,033 feet West and 1,873 feet South from the North East corner
  • 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-B3—New Hartford, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Horton, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 2
  • 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 - 12/13/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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: 12/13/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39091b3sw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    FESTU

    Festuca

    fescue

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

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—23

    0—160

    23—160

    23—160

    94—

    —23—

    —160—

    —137—

    —137—

    —1—
    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

    1.5

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    234.4

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    25

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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, and weak fine platy structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (10YR 3/3), 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; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005602; observed in push tube
    Btg1—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on surfaces along pores and 15 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), 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 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—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 70 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark red (2.5YR 3/6), 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
    Btg3—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and 20 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 70 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 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; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg4—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine vesicular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (10YR 3/3), 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), 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 smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg5—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches); 70 percent gray (10YR 6/1) broken face and 30 percent gray (10YR 5/1) broken face silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 35 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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 strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), 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 smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg6—127 to 160 centimeters (50.0 to 63.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, sand coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), 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.; observed in push tube