IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO193010
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO193010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0819310
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25863
  • 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: 37.8523889
  • Std. Longitude: -89.9848889
  • 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: 37089-G8—Lithium, 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 #: 310
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • PSC - 15 to 66 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 over fine-loamy pedisediment derived from sedimentary rock
  • 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: 37089g8
  • 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

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—15

    15—163

    102—

    —15—

    —148—

    —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

    2

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    67.7

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    210

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005507; observed in push tube
    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; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005508; observed in push tube
    Bt2—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005509; observed in push tube
    Bt3—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005510; observed in push tube
    Bt4—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and weak fine 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005511; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005512; observed in push tube
    2Bt6—130 to 163 centimeters (51.2 to 64.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 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. Lab sample # MU005513; observed in push tube