IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO113068
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO113068
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2007MO11368
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0711368
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25740
  • 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: 39.0396944
  • Std. Longitude: -90.7939444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T49N
  • Range: R2E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1,887 feet East and 2,588 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-A7—Luckett Ridge, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Horton, Keith Knelle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 68
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Paleudalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/30/2007
  • 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: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/30/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39090a7se
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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 concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—10

    20—208

    41—

    56—183

    107—

    —10—

    —188—

    —1—

    —127—

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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

    5

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    205.1

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    140

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004559; observed in push tube
    BE—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004560; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 12 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats and 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films; 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 # MU004561; observed in push tube
    Bt2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films and 70 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004562; observed in push tube
    Bt3—56 to 107 centimeters (22.0 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats and 35 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), 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 and 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 # MU004563; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—107 to 160 centimeters (42.1 to 63.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 12 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films and 35 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004564; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—160 to 183 centimeters (63.0 to 72.0 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face and 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), 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 5/8), 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004565; observed in push tube
    3C—183 to 208 centimeters (72.0 to 81.9 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face and 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face clay; massive; very firm; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU004566; observed in push tube