IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992MO019060
  • User Pedon ID: 1992MO019060
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9201960
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34269
  • 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: 8
  • Location Description: 200 feet NE of NE corner fencepost by trailer; 700 feet south and 1400 feet west of NE cor. sec. 8, 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 - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1992
  • 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: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1992 (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—8

    8—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

    16

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    90

    914

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044362
    Bt1—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent silt coats on faces of peds and 60 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044363
    Bt2—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.3 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 15 percent faint silt coats on faces of peds and 60 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044364
    Bt3—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.3 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt coats on faces of peds and in pores and 60 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU044365
    Bt4—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) 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 # MU044366
    Bt5—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 35 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and 60 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt coats on faces of peds; 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # MU044367