IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO113057
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO113057
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO11357
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0711357
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25730
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 39.1717500
  • Std. Longitude: -90.7983889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: 1,333 feet East and 7,153 feet North from the South West corner of Survey 1706,
  • 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: Keith Knelle, John Horton
  • 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: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 57
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 33 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • 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: 39090b7se
  • 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 sheet
    • 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

    lithologic discontinuity

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—13

    33—203

    104—

    104—130

    —13—

    —170—

    —1—

    —26—
    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

    14.8

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    168.9

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    20

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004488; observed in push tube
    BE—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004489; observed in push tube
    Bt1—33 to 66 centimeters (13.0 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004490; observed in push tube
    Bt2—66 to 104 centimeters (26.0 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004491; observed in push tube
    2Bt3—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004492; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—130 to 168 centimeters (51.2 to 66.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004493; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 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; fragments. Lab sample # MU004494; observed in push tube