IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO139053
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO139053
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0613953
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30327
  • 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: 38.9057778
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5424167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T48N
  • Range: R6W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 493 feet East and 767 feet South from the North West corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO139—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO603—Montgomery and Warren Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-H5—Montgomery City, Missouri
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Chalfant, Amber Marshaus, Greg Caldwell, Wyn Kelley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aeric 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 #: 53
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aeric Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • PSC - 0 to 0 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/6/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed over clayey till derived from aa lava
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: broad interstream divide
  • Anthropogenic Feature: ditch
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Recent Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091h5se
  • 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
  • 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

    246.9

    0

    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027703; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—25 to 66 centimeters (9.8 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented weak red (2.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027704; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—66 to 119 centimeters (26.0 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; 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 weak red (2.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027705; observed in pit, small
    2Bt1—119 to 198 centimeters (46.9 to 78.0 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027706; observed in pit, small
    2Btg1—198 to 284 centimeters (78.0 to 111.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 20 percent faint weak red (2.5YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 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 yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU027707; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—284 to 356 centimeters (111.8 to 140.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 5 percent distinct weak red (2.5YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented weak red (2.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—356 to 366 centimeters (140.2 to 144.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent distinct weak red (2.5YR 5/2), moist, clay films; 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 weak red (2.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 4 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    3BC—366 to 396 centimeters (144.1 to 155.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small