IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO151009
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO151009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0815109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25814
  • 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: 38.6568056
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8143889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T45N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 1,781 feet West and 1,779 feet North from the South East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO151—Osage
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO151—Osage County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-F7—Mokane East, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Butler
  • 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 #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091f7
  • 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 gully
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    8—213

    —8—

    —205—
    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

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium platy structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # MU005117; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organoargillans and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments. Lab sample # MU005118; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments. Lab sample # MU005119; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—43 to 86 centimeters (16.9 to 33.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 70 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. Lab sample # MU005120; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—86 to 119 centimeters (33.9 to 46.9 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 70 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU005121; observed in pit, small
    Bt5—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent prominent 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. Lab sample # MU005122; observed in pit, small
    Bt6—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent prominent 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. Lab sample # MU005123; observed in pit, small
    2Btk—203 to 213 centimeters (79.9 to 83.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 12 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. Lab sample # MU005124; observed in pit, small