IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO127002
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO127002
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T06-127-02
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0612702
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25844
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 39.9201111
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7339722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T59N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 780 feet West and 657 feet North from the South East corner
  • Location Description: outside town of benbow
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO127—Marion
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO608—Marion and Ralls Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39091-H6—Durham, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Paine
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argialbolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argialbolls
  • PSC - 53 to 104 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/25/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/25/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39091h6sw
  • 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 gully
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    abrupt textural change

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    53 -

    - 1 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    0—33

    18—152

    53—178

    53—

    —33—

    —134—

    —125—

    —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

    5

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    206.7

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    110

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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005348; observed in push tube
    Ap2—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; moderate thin platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005349; observed in push tube
    E—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; 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 (N 2.5/0), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Bt—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1), 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 red (2.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg1—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg2—104 to 132 centimeters (40.9 to 52.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), 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 black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg3—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg4—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments.; observed in push tube