IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO019061
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO019061
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9201961
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34268
  • 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: 38.9498422
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5201555
  • Datum: WGS84
  • 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 - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1992
  • 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 31
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    18

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044368
    Bt1—8 to 43 centimeters (3.1 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 60 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # MU044369
    Bt2—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats and 60 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 60 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # MU044370
    Bt3—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent faint silt coats and 40 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 40 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; yellowish red (5YR 4/6); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # MU044371
    Bt4—104 to 135 centimeters (40.9 to 53.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots; 10 percent faint silt coats and 35 percent distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores and 35 percent prominent clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # MU044372
    Bt5—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent faint silt coats and 35 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU044373