IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO137002
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO137002
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T06-137-03
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0613702
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25849
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 39.5170278
  • Std. Longitude: -91.9150278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T55N
  • Range: R9W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 2,142 feet West and 1,415 feet North from the South East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO137—Monroe
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO602—Knox, Monroe, and Shelby Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39091-E8—Goss, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joseph Dyer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/10/2006
  • 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: plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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: 1/10/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39091e8se
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—203

    —25—

    —178—
    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

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    225.6

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    260

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005388; observed in push tube
    Btg1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Btg2—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bt—46 to 51 centimeters (18.1 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005391; observed in push tube
    Btg1—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005392; observed in push tube
    Btg2—69 to 117 centimeters (27.2 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 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. Lab sample # MU005393; observed in push tube
    2Btg3—117 to 168 centimeters (46.1 to 66.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 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
    2Btg4—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 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.; observed in push tube