IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO157006
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO157006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2008MO157006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0815706
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25812
  • 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: 37.7453056
  • Std. Longitude: -89.7840000
  • 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-F7—Perryville East, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Horton, Keith Knelle, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 10 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Holocene Stage fine-silty loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/21/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37089f7
  • 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
    • 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

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—10

    10—203

    28—157

    53—203

    157—

    —10—

    —193—

    —129—

    —150—

    —1—
    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

    6

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    67.7

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005103; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005104; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky 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 and 35 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005105; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 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 grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005106; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005107; observed in pit, small
    2Bt5—114 to 157 centimeters (44.9 to 61.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005108; observed in pit, small
    2Bt6—157 to 203 centimeters (61.8 to 79.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 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. Lab sample # MU005109; observed in pit, small