IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO113059
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO113059
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO11359
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0711359
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25732
  • 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: 39.1300000
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8096944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T50N
  • Range: R2E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 2,668 feet East and 1,922 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: Keith Knelle, John Horton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 59
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • PSC - 30 to 81 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: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Maquoketa Shale 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

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—10

    30—203

    145—163

    163—

    —10—

    —173—

    —18—

    —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

    5.4

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    183.8

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    320

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) 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 # MU004502; observed in push tube
    BE—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 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; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004503; observed in push tube
    Bt1—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 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 and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004504; observed in push tube
    Bt2—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004505; observed in push tube
    Bt3—97 to 145 centimeters (38.2 to 57.1 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 faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 70 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004506; observed in push tube
    Bt4—145 to 163 centimeters (57.1 to 64.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) 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 brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films 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 grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004507; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—163 to 203 centimeters (64.2 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), 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; fragments. Lab sample # MU004508; observed in push tube