IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO019024
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO019024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9201924
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 27252
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.9565553
  • Std. Longitude: -92.4882562
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Range: R14W
  • Section: 15
  • Location Description: 600 feet east and 900 feet south of the northwest corner of sec. 15, T.43N.,R.14W.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO019—Boone
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FJY
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/19/1991
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/19/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 32
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    6

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015223
    Bt1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 very fine roots; 60 percent faint and 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015224
    Bt2—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 40 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 40 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt coats on faces of peds and 60 percent faint ; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015225
    Bt3—66 to 112 centimeters (26.0 to 44.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots; 10 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coats on faces of peds and 40 percent faint and 40 percent distinct and 40 percent distinct silt coats on faces of peds and 40 percent prominent silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # MU015226
    Bt4—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.7 very fine roots; 10 percent faint and 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 40 percent distinct and 40 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU015227