IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO019031
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO019031
  • User Site Association ID: Menfro TUDs
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9201931
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34287
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 38.7210500
  • Std. Longitude: -92.3411000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Range: R13W
  • Section: 36
  • Location Description: 1120 north and 2550 feet east of the southwest corner of sec. 36, T. 46N., R.13 W.; USGS Hartsburg quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: 60008—Menfro silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO019—Boone
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-UNI—Union, Missouri
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO019—Boone County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38092-F3—Hartsburg, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Osborne
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • Classificaton Date - 1/8/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/8/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 48
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—152

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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

    29

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    204.2

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    270

    914

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044217
    E—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044218
    BE—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 60 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044219
    Bt1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 60 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and 60 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044220
    Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; strong coarse subangular blocky parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 60 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and 60 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044221
    Bt3—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 60 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and 60 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044222
    Bt4—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044223
    Bt5—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats and 15 percent clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6); fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044224
    Bt6—130 to 157 centimeters (51.2 to 61.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044225
    Bt7—157 to 203 centimeters (61.8 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 35 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds and 60 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU044226