IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO031013
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO031013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2008MO031013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0803113
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25791
  • 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: 37.4006944
  • Std. Longitude: -89.5635000
  • 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-D5—Cape Girardeau NE, 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 #: 13
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudalfs
  • PSC - 10 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/4/2008
  • 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: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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: 6/4/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37089d5
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUERC

    CARYA

    Quercus

    Carya

    oak

    hybrid hickory

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—10

    10—203

    56—76

    56—76

    165—203

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    —193—

    —20—

    —20—

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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

    5

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    67.7

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    210

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) 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 interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004944; observed in push tube
    Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) 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 faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004945; observed in push tube
    Bt2—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004946; observed in push tube
    Bt3—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium 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; 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 # MU004947; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004948; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—104 to 132 centimeters (40.9 to 52.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004949; observed in push tube
    2Bt6—132 to 165 centimeters (52.0 to 65.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004950; observed in push tube
    2Bt7—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), 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. Lab sample # MU004951; observed in push tube