IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1993MO051010
  • User Pedon ID: 1993MO051010
  • User Site Association ID: Menfro TUDs
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9305108
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34235
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.7071528
  • Std. Longitude: -92.3838833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Range: R13W
  • Section: 30
  • Location Description: 2500'east 2525'north sec.30 T46 R13W
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO051—Cole
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-UNI—Union, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO051—Cole County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-E2—Jefferson City, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John L. Baker
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/1993
  • 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: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/21/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 6-26
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—203

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    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

    4

    34

    91.4

    207

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); 99 percent brown (10YR 4/3) crushed silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047428. MU lab sample no. 93-051-08-(01-08)
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); 99 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct silt coats in root channels and/or pores and 26 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047429
    Bt2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); 99 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint silt coats in root channels and/or pores and 45 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047430
    Bt3—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); 99 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 2 percent prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains on horizontal faces of peds and 6 percent distinct silt coats in root channels and/or pores and 60 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047431
    Bt4—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); 99 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 40 percent prominent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047432
    Bt5—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); 99 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3 percent prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains in root channels and/or pores and 35 percent prominent clay films on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent prominent silt coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047433
    Bt6—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); 99 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3 percent prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains on vertical faces of peds and 6 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds and 6 percent prominent silt coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU047434
    C—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); 99 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; massive; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3 percent prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains on vertical faces of peds and 6 percent prominent clay films in root channels and/or pores and 6 percent prominent silt coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU047435