IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO151015
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO151015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9115169
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33602
  • 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: 38.6383807
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8715407
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: James Maxey property near St. Aubert.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO151—Osage
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Davis Brad Berhorst
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • PSC - 30 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    30—152

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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

    12

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    —

    180

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    110

    991

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    12.8

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    13.9

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 4.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042594
    BA—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042595
    Bt1—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 60 percent prominent silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042596. continuous - phpvsfiid 148553; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148552; continuous - phpvsfiid 148553; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148552
    Bt2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; strong fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 10.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 60 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042597. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148554; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148554
    Bt3—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; strong fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 10.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 60 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses throughout and 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042598. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148555; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148555
    Bt32—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # MU042599
    Bt4—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 10.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses between peds and 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented pale brown (10YR 6/3) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042600. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148556; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148556
    Bt5—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; 10.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented pale brown (10YR 6/3) masses of oxidized iron between peds and 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU042601. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148557; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148557