IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO113062
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO113062
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO11362
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0711362
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25734
  • 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: 38.9921944
  • Std. Longitude: -90.7601111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T49N
  • Range: R2E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 1,119 feet East and 2,041 feet North from the South 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: 38090-H7—Maryknoll, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Horton, Keith Knelle, Dennis Meinert
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 62
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/24/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/24/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090h7ne
  • 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

    redox concentrations

    0—25

    25—203

    74—

    74—

    —25—

    —178—

    —1—

    —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

    2

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    165.8

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    100

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); 60 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak very fine and fine platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004516; observed in pit, small
    BA—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); 80 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004517; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films between sand grains; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004518; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films and 70 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, silt coats and 70 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004519; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats and 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films and 35 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004520; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats and 70 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), 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 very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), 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 # MU004521; observed in pit, small
    Bt5—94 to 137 centimeters (37.0 to 53.9 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), 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 # MU004522; observed in pit, small
    Bt6—137 to 165 centimeters (53.9 to 65.0 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), 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 # MU004523; observed in pit, small
    Bt7—165 to 183 centimeters (65.0 to 72.0 inches); 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face and 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU004524; observed in pit, small