IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO183048
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO183048
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0718348
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25754
  • 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: 38.8741389
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8046667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: 9,629 feet West and 814 feet North from the South East corner of Survey 3035,
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO183—St. Charles
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO183—St. Charles County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38090-G7—Wentzville, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Knelle, John Horton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 48
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/8/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090g7ne
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—41

    41—203

    64—

    64—

    135—

    —41—

    —162—

    —1—

    —1—

    —1—
    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

    —

    —

    144.8

    —

    225

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004664; observed in push tube
    AE—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004665; observed in push tube
    E—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004666; observed in push tube
    Bt1—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004667; observed in push tube
    Bt2—64 to 97 centimeters (25.2 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004668; observed in push tube
    Bt3—97 to 135 centimeters (38.2 to 53.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004669; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—135 to 175 centimeters (53.1 to 68.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004670; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—175 to 203 centimeters (68.9 to 79.9 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU004671; observed in push tube