IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MEXICO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO173001
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO173001
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - no transect
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0617301
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25851
  • 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: 39.3536111
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5915000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T53N
  • Range: R6W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 626 feet West and 375 feet North from the South East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO173—Ralls
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO608—Marion and Ralls Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39091-C5—Farber, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joseph Dyer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic 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 #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MEXICO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Epiaqualfs
  • PSC - 102 to 229 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/6/2006
  • 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

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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: 4/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39091c5nw
  • 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—41

    41—185

    —41—

    —144—
    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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    270

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed silt loam; weak fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005406; observed in push tube
    Ap2—8 to 24 centimeters (3.1 to 9.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005407; observed in push tube
    E—24 to 40 centimeters (9.4 to 15.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), 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. Lab sample # MU005408; observed in push tube
    Btg1—40 to 64 centimeters (15.7 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silty clay; strong medium prismatic structure; slightly rigid; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), 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. Lab sample # MU005409; observed in push tube
    Btg2—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic structure; slightly rigid; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005410; observed in push tube
    Btg3—81 to 108 centimeters (31.9 to 42.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic structure; slightly rigid; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint black (10YR 2/1), 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 red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005411; observed in push tube
    Btg4—108 to 128 centimeters (42.5 to 50.4 inches); 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and strong medium prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 5/4), 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. Lab sample # MU005412; observed in push tube
    Btg5—128 to 178 centimeters (50.4 to 70.1 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and 50 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent faint black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films; 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 # MU005413; observed in push tube
    Btg6—178 to 185 centimeters (70.1 to 72.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), 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. Lab sample # MU005414; observed in push tube