IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1995MO151016
  • User Pedon ID: 1995MO151016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9115146
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33601
  • 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: 38.6739360
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6832014
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Tom Starke property. Downslope from modal pedon for the series.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO151—Osage
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Davis Wyn Kelley
  • 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 - 13 to 64 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • 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
  • 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—13

    13—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

    18

    —

    —

    183

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    90

    991

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    12.8

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    —

    13.9

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042457
    Bt1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 very fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042458. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148558; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148558
    Bt2—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 4.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042459. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148559; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148559
    Bt3—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; strong fine prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 8.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses throughout and 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/3) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042460. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148560; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148560
    Bt4—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; strong 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 throughout and 10 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/3) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042461. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148561; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148561
    Bt51—97 to 117 centimeters (38.2 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 8.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses throughout and 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU042462. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148562; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148562
    Bt52—117 to 137 centimeters (46.1 to 53.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # MU042463
    Bt6—137 to 160 centimeters (53.9 to 63.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.8 very fine roots between peds; 7.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds and 5 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU042464. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148563; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 148563