IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2002MO219001
  • User Pedon ID: 2002MO219001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0221901
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30578
  • 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: 38.6840194
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2476500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T45N
  • Range: R3W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 110 feet east and 1390 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Ardel Bunge property
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO219—Warren
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO603—Montgomery and Warren Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-F2—Treloar, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dennis Meinert, Wyn Kelley, Mike Chalfant
  • 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: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 28 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered limestone and shale at 257cm with <10 and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Geology: Jefferson City Dolomite formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/25/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091f2sw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    257 - 257

    - 1 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—28

    28—257

    257—257

    —28—

    —229—

    —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

    24

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    205.7

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    38

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 8.0 fine roots; 7.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU023565
    BA—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 fine roots; 7.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # MU023566. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885734; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885734
    Bt1—28 to 58 centimeters (11.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 4.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU023567. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885735; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885736; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885735; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885736
    Bt2—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU023568. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885737; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885738; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885737; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885738
    Bt3—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU023569. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885739; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885740; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885739; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885740
    Bt4—94 to 160 centimeters (37.0 to 63.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU023570. lab sample split at 50 inches (127cm).; continuous - phpvsfiid 885742; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885741; continuous - phpvsfiid 885742; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885741
    2Bt5—160 to 180 centimeters (63.0 to 70.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.9 fine roots; 0.9 fine tubular pores; 40 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, and brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 25-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU023572. about 5% coarse sand sized chert fragments; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885743; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885743
    2Bt6—180 to 213 centimeters (70.9 to 83.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.9 fine roots; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 40 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # MU023573. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885746; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885747; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885746; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885747
    3Bt7—213 to 251 centimeters (83.9 to 98.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 20 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments. slight increase inb very fine sand; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885744; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885745; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885744; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885745
    3Bt8—251 to 257 centimeters (98.8 to 101.2 inches); 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and 40 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) interior clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 25-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885748; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 885748
    4R—257 to 267 centimeters (101.2 to 105.1 inches); fragments.