IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO193005
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO193005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0819305
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25864
  • 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: 37.9593889
  • Std. Longitude: -90.0456944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO186—Ste. Genevieve
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO186—Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37090-H1—Sainte Genevieve, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Knelle, John Horton, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • PSC - 5 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed over fine-silty residuum weathered 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: 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: 37090h1
  • 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

    lithologic discontinuity

    redox concentrations

    0—5

    5—221

    109—

    145—221

    —5—

    —216—

    —1—

    —76—
    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

    3

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    —

    67.7

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    30

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005514; observed in push tube
    Bt1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005515; observed in push tube
    Bt2—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 95 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005516; observed in push tube
    Bt3—43 to 79 centimeters (16.9 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005517; observed in push tube
    Bt4—79 to 109 centimeters (31.1 to 42.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 12 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005518; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—109 to 145 centimeters (42.9 to 57.1 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005519; observed in push tube
    2Bt6—145 to 178 centimeters (57.1 to 70.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005520; observed in push tube
    2Bt7—178 to 221 centimeters (70.1 to 87.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU005521; observed in push tube