IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006MO027090
  • User Pedon ID: 2006MO027090
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 01C-1
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0602790
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25773
  • 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: 38.7156111
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7873333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T46N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 2,080 feet West and 1,669 feet South from the North East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO027—Callaway
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO027—Callaway County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-F7—Mokane East, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Greg Caldwell, David Dowdy, Larry Slechta, Amber Marshaus
  • 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: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 90
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: river valley
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Upper Wisconsinan Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091f7ne
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—203

    —18—

    —185—
    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

    3

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    196

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    10

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed silt loam; 15 percent sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak thin platy structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004809; observed in push tube
    Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; 20 percent sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint clay films and 12 percent faint silt coats; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004810; observed in push tube
    Bt2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; 31 percent sand; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats and 35 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004811; observed in push tube
    Bt3—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; 36 percent sand; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films and 70 percent prominent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004812; observed in push tube
    Bt4—69 to 112 centimeters (27.2 to 44.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; 34 percent sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats and 70 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004813; observed in push tube
    Bt5—112 to 147 centimeters (44.1 to 57.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; 29 percent sand; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films and 35 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004814; observed in push tube
    BC1—147 to 190 centimeters (57.9 to 74.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; 26 percent sand; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    BC2—190 to 203 centimeters (74.8 to 79.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; 24 percent sand; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films and 35 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU004816; observed in push tube