IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004MO031005
  • User Pedon ID: 2004MO031005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0403105
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30988
  • 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: 37.3749466
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6180344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 60169—Menfro silt loam, 9 to 14 percent slopes16D—Menfro silt loam, 9 to 14 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO031—Cape Girardeau
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO031—Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37089-D5—Cape Girardeau NE, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KG, LT, RT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/31/2004
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/31/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    33—203

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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

    15

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    147.8

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    150

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    Ap—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 12.0 fine and medium pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025860
    BE—14 to 33 centimeters (5.5 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 8.0 very fine and fine roots; 10.0 fine and medium pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU025861
    Bt1—33 to 76 centimeters (13.0 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine and fine roots; 10.0 very fine and fine and 1.0 medium pores; 5 percent distinct clay films; 5 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025862
    Bt2—76 to 120 centimeters (29.9 to 47.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 10.0 very fine and fine and 1.0 medium pores; 20 percent distinct clay films; 3 percent fine and medium prominent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025863
    Bt3—120 to 168 centimeters (47.2 to 66.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 very fine and fine and 1.0 medium pores; 20 percent distinct clay films; 2 percent fine and medium prominent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025864
    Bt4—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 very fine and fine and 1.0 medium pores; 20 percent distinct clay films; fragments. Lab sample # MU025865