IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO031017
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO031017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0803117
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25808
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 37.2758889
  • Std. Longitude: -89.5418889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO031—Cape Girardeau
  • MLRA: 131A—Southern Mississippi River Alluvium
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO609—Cape Girardeau, Mississippi and Scott Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37089-C5—Cape Girardeau, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Knelle, John Horton, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/4/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: 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: 37089c5
  • 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

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—20

    20—218

    20—36

    36—71

    —20—

    —198—

    —16—

    —35—
    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

    15

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    —

    67.7

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    121

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005073; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005074; observed in push tube
    Bt2—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films 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 # MU005075; observed in push tube
    Bt3—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 70 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005076; observed in push tube
    Bt4—97 to 132 centimeters (38.2 to 52.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), 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 # MU005077; observed in push tube
    Bt5—132 to 160 centimeters (52.0 to 63.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 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), dry, 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005078; observed in push tube
    Bt6—160 to 201 centimeters (63.0 to 79.1 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 70 percent faint 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005079; observed in push tube
    Bt7—201 to 218 centimeters (79.1 to 85.8 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), 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. Lab sample # MU005080; observed in push tube