IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO157003
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO157003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2008MO157003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0815703
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25768
  • 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: 37.6188056
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6411944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO157—Perry
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO157—Perry County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37089-E6—Oak Ridge, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Horton, Keith Knelle, 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 #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/20/2008
  • 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: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/20/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37089e6
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FESTU

    Festuca

    fescue

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—203

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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

    4

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    110

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004770; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004771; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004772; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 20 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004773; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—71 to 109 centimeters (28.0 to 42.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 20 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004774; observed in pit, small
    2Bt5—109 to 160 centimeters (42.9 to 63.0 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 20 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004775; observed in pit, small
    2Bt6—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 1 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments. Lab sample # MU004776; observed in pit, small