IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO127003
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO127003
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T06-127-02
  • Transect Stop Number - 6
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0612703
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25845
  • 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: 39.9215556
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7391944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T59N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 2,250 feet West and 1,162 feet North from the South East corner
  • 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 Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs
  • PSC - 46 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/25/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic horizon

    0—46

    23—203

    46—203

    —46—

    —180—

    —157—
    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

    3

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    207.3

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    140

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005356; observed in push tube
    E—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 medium irregular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg1—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 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; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg2—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay; weak medium angular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 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 (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg3—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay; weak medium angular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 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—99 to 119 centimeters (39.0 to 46.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg5—119 to 137 centimeters (46.9 to 53.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) interior clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg6—137 to 163 centimeters (53.9 to 64.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct 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 (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Btg7—163 to 203 centimeters (64.2 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct 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 (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments.; observed in push tube