IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO073003
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO073003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0807303
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25813
  • 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: 38.5953889
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6106111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO073—Gasconade
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO073—Gasconade County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-E5—Pershing, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Butler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 303
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed over loamy alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • 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: 5/13/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091e5
  • 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 gully
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—208

    —18—

    —190—
    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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    Ap1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005110; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—36 to 74 centimeters (14.2 to 29.1 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—74 to 122 centimeters (29.1 to 48.0 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 20 percent 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 wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—122 to 127 centimeters (48.0 to 50.0 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats and 15 percent 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 wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt5—127 to 190 centimeters (50.0 to 74.8 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent 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; 5 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, worm casts; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt6—190 to 208 centimeters (74.8 to 81.9 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent 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; 10 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, worm casts; fragments.; observed in pit, small