IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO193006
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO193006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0819306
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25860
  • 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: 37.9260000
  • Std. Longitude: -90.0566111
  • 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 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 #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2008
  • 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: shoulder
  • 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 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    0—20

    20—203

    —20—

    —183—
    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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    190

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005484; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005485; observed in push tube
    Bt2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005486; observed in push tube
    Bt3—58 to 109 centimeters (22.8 to 42.9 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), 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 # MU005487; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—109 to 137 centimeters (42.9 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) 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 on all faces of peds and 12 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005488; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—137 to 168 centimeters (53.9 to 66.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) 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; 35 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005489; observed in push tube
    2Bt6—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), 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. Lab sample # MU005490; observed in push tube