IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO113058
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO113058
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO11358
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0711358
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25731
  • 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: 39.1520278
  • Std. Longitude: -90.7909167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T51N
  • Range: R2E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 1,223 feet West and 499 feet North from the South East 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: 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 #: 58
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 25 to 76 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: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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

    0—8

    25—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

    4.3

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    159.1

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    120

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 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 # MU004495; observed in push tube
    BE—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004496; observed in push tube
    Bt1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky 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; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004497; observed in push tube
    Bt2—43 to 79 centimeters (16.9 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004498; observed in push tube
    Bt3—79 to 117 centimeters (31.1 to 46.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004499; observed in push tube
    Bt4—117 to 173 centimeters (46.1 to 68.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004500; observed in push tube
    Bt5—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # MU004501; observed in push tube