IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO151014
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO151014
  • User Site Association ID: Menfro TUDs
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9115145
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 27299
  • 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: 38.6734417
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6839528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Tom Starke property
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO151—Osage
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-UNI—Union, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO151—Osage County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-F6—Morrison, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Davis, Wyn Kelley
  • 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 - 28 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—160

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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

    8

    —

    —

    195

    —

    90

    991

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    —

    12.8

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    13.9

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015530
    AE—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015531
    Bt1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015532. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148543; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148543
    Bt2—48 to 86 centimeters (18.9 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; strong fine prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 8.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 10 percent distinct organic stains on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015533, MU015534. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148544; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148545; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148544; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148545
    Bt3—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 10.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 10 percent distinct organic stains on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015535. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148546; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148547; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148546; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148547
    Bt4—109 to 135 centimeters (42.9 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 10.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct organic stains on faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds and 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015536. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148548; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148549; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148548; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148549
    Bt5—135 to 160 centimeters (53.1 to 63.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 10.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct organic stains on faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU015537. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148550; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148551; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148550; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148551