IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO019059
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO019059
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9201959
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 27256
  • 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: 38.7208789
  • Std. Longitude: -92.3415560
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Range: R12W
  • Section: 22
  • Location Description: 480 feet north of NW corner of abandoned house, on Mary Wilson property; 2700 feet east and 2000 feet south of NW corner sec. 22, T 45 N., R.12 W.
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO019—Boone
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Osborne
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • PSC - 23 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/1992
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/4/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 50
  • 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—23

    23—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

    11

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    90

    914

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; silt loam; weak medium platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015250
    BE—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; 35 percent silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015251
    Bt1—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 35 percent faint silt coats on faces of peds and 35 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 60 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015252
    Bt2—51 to 89 centimeters (20.1 to 35.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 15 percent distinct silt coats on faces of peds and in pores and 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains on faces of peds and in pores and 60 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015253
    Bt3—89 to 122 centimeters (35.0 to 48.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 15 percent distinct silt coats on faces of peds and in pores and 60 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU015254
    Bt4—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 35 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent distinct silt coats on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU015255