IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: 2008MO031010

User Pedon ID: 2008MO031010

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - MCL

Lab Pedon # - M0803110

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25805

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: 37.4551111

Std. Longitude: -89.6653056

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-D6—Jackson, Missouri

PEDON

Describers Name: Keith Knelle, John Horton, Dennis Meinert

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

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: map unit inclusion

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon

Pedon #: 10

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - MENFRO

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

PSC - 20 to 71 cm.

Classificaton Date - 6/3/2008

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: ridge

Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve

Hill Slope Profile: backslope

Slope Position: upper third

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: convex

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: 6/3/2008 (actual site observation date)

Air Photo ID: 37089d6

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 lithologic discontinuity	0—20 20—203 38—102 38—203 38—203 173—	—20— —183— —64— —165— —165— —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
8	—	—	67.7	—	240	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) 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 # MU005050; observed in push tube

Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005051; observed in push tube

Bt2—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); 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; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005052; observed in push tube

Bt3—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, 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 black (10YR 2/1), 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005053; observed in push tube

Bt4—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, 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 grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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 and 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 # MU005054; observed in push tube

Bt5—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005055; observed in push tube

Bt6—130 to 173 centimeters (51.2 to 68.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 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 light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005056; observed in push tube

2Bt7—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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. Lab sample # MU005057; observed in push tube