IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO113056
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO113056
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO11356
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0711356
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25729
  • 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: 39.1599444
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8163889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T51N
  • Range: R2E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 37 feet East and 2,014 feet South from the North West corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO113—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO113—Lincoln County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39090-B7—Elsberry, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Horton, Keith Knelle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 56
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 10 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39090b7sw
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FESTU

    Festuca

    fescue

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—10

    10—221

    38—

    79—

    79—

    —10—

    —211—

    —1—

    —1—

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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

    7

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    170.7

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    230

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004481; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004482; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004483; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—38 to 79 centimeters (15.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004484; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—79 to 117 centimeters (31.1 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004485; observed in pit, small
    2Bt5—117 to 145 centimeters (46.1 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004486; observed in pit, small
    2Bt6—145 to 221 centimeters (57.1 to 87.0 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), 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 # MU004487; observed in pit, small