IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO219061
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO219061
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0521961
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30342
  • 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: 38.9247222
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2125000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T48N
  • Range: R3W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 1,409 feet West and 2,681 feet North from the South East corner
  • Location Description: Junction of Hiway A & W
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO219—Warren
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO603—Montgomery and Warren Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-H2—Hawk Point, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Chalfant, LeAnn Bullard, Greg Caldwell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 61
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
  • PSC - 33 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/12/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091h2sw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - urban and built-up
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    13—33

    30—503

    —13—

    —20—

    —473—
    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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    236.2

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed silt loam; granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 10.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    E—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak thick platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027253; observed in push tube
    Btg—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 10.0 fine pores; 35 percent prominent clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027254; observed in push tube
    Bt—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 25 percent prominent clay films; 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027255; observed in push tube
    2Btg—94 to 155 centimeters (37.0 to 61.0 inches); 60 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 15 percent distinct clay films and 30 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, skeletans; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027256; observed in push tube
    3Btgb1—155 to 183 centimeters (61.0 to 72.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent prominent clay films and 40 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, skeletans; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027257; observed in push tube
    3Btgb2—183 to 274 centimeters (72.0 to 107.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 25 percent distinct clay films and 45 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, skeletans; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027258; observed in push tube
    3Btgb3—274 to 381 centimeters (107.9 to 150.0 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    3Btgb4—381 to 503 centimeters (150.0 to 198.0 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, skeletans and 40 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    3BCb—503 to 582 centimeters (198.0 to 229.1 inches); 30 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face and 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark reddish brown (5YR 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; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    4Bwb—582 to 622 centimeters (229.1 to 244.9 inches); 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1) broken face and 85 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) broken face loam; massive; firm; 1 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate coats and 20 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, skeletans; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    4CBb—622 to 747 centimeters (244.9 to 294.1 inches); 15 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 45 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; massive; very firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    5C—747 to 747 centimeters (294.1 to 294.1 inches); fragments.; observed in push tube