IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: 2008MO031004

User Pedon ID: 2008MO031004

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - MCL

Lab Pedon # - M0803104

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25788

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: 37.4411944

Std. Longitude: -89.4921111

Datum: WGS84

Country: US—United States

State: Missouri

County: MO031—Cape Girardeau

MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO609—Cape Girardeau, Mississippi and Scott Counties, Missouri

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37089-D4—Ware, Illinois

PEDON

Describers Name: Keith Knelle, John Horton

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: map unit inclusion

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon

Pedon #: 4

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - MENFRO

Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs

PSC - 20 to 71 cm.

Classificaton Date - 6/10/2008

Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed

Landscape: hills

Landform: hillslope

Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve

Hill Slope Profile: shoulder

Slope Position: upper third

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: convex

Runoff: negligible

Drainage Class: moderately well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Geology: Holocene Stage formation.

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 6/10/2008 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID: 37089d4

Surface Water Kind: none observed

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland

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 concentrations aquic conditions redox depletions with chroma 2 or less	0—20 20—203 69—112 69—142 117—142	—20— —183— —43— —73— —25—

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
6	—	—	67.7	—	40	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004921; observed in push tube

Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004922; observed in push tube

Bt2—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004923; observed in push tube

Bt3—69 to 112 centimeters (27.2 to 44.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), 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 and 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 # MU004924; observed in push tube

Bt4—112 to 142 centimeters (44.1 to 55.9 inches); 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004925; observed in push tube

2Bt5—142 to 188 centimeters (55.9 to 74.0 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004926; observed in push tube

2Bt6—188 to 203 centimeters (74.0 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU004927; observed in push tube