IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2005MO089002
  • User Pedon ID: 2005MO089002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0508902
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30923
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 37.9694444
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4969444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T49N
  • Range: R16W
  • Section: 30
  • Map Unit: 60001—Menfro silt loam, 5 to 9 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO089—Howard
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO089—Howard County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39092-A7—Franklin, Missouri
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FJY
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • Classificaton Date - 5/26/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/26/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • 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—8

    8—229

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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

    7

    213

    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026523; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—8 to 58 centimeters (3.1 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026524; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284903; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284911; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284903; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284911
    Bt2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026525; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284913; continuous - phpvsfiid 284912; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284913; continuous - phpvsfiid 284912
    Bt3—76 to 119 centimeters (29.9 to 46.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 10 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026526; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 284930; continuous - phpvsfiid 284931; continuous - phpvsfiid 284932; continuous - phpvsfiid 284933; continuous - phpvsfiid 284930; continuous - phpvsfiid 284931; continuous - phpvsfiid 284932; continuous - phpvsfiid 284933
    Bt4—119 to 183 centimeters (46.9 to 72.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 20 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent distinct skeletans on vertical faces of peds; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU026527; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284936; continuous - phpvsfiid 284934; continuous - phpvsfiid 284935; patchy - phpvsfiid 284937; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284936; continuous - phpvsfiid 284934; continuous - phpvsfiid 284935; patchy - phpvsfiid 284937
    Bt5—183 to 229 centimeters (72.0 to 90.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 15 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 20 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # MU026528; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284940; patchy - phpvsfiid 284943; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284941; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284942; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284940; patchy - phpvsfiid 284943; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284941; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 284942