IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO031021
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO031021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0803121
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25809
  • 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: 37.4000000
  • Std. Longitude: -89.4761111
  • 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, 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 #: 21
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/5/2008
  • 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: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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: 6/5/2008 (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 - 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

    0—25

    25—206

    150—180

    —25—

    —181—

    —30—
    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

    2

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    67.7

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    120

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005081; observed in push tube
    Bt1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium 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; 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 # MU005082; observed in push tube
    Bt2—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 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; 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 # MU005083; observed in push tube
    Bt3—74 to 114 centimeters (29.1 to 44.9 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 subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 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; 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 # MU005084; observed in push tube
    Bt4—114 to 150 centimeters (44.9 to 59.1 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/1), 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005085; observed in push tube
    Bt5—150 to 180 centimeters (59.1 to 70.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005086; observed in push tube
    Bt6—180 to 206 centimeters (70.9 to 81.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine platy structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # MU005087; observed in push tube