IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO183056
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO183056
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0718356
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30233
  • 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: 38.6107778
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8032222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: 2,523 feet East and 1,785 feet North from the South West corner of Survey 20,
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO183—St. Charles
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO183—St. Charles County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38090-E7—Labadie, 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 #: 56
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/28/2007
  • 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: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • 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: 11/28/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090e7ne
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—18

    18—213

    48—213

    147—

    —18—

    —195—

    —165—

    —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

    8

    —

    —

    166.7

    —

    85

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 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; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU029514; observed in push tube
    Bt1—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU029515; observed in push tube
    Bt2—25 to 79 centimeters (9.8 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 # MU029516; observed in push tube
    Bt3—79 to 114 centimeters (31.1 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 # MU029517; observed in push tube
    Bt4—114 to 147 centimeters (44.9 to 57.9 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 # MU029518; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—147 to 175 centimeters (57.9 to 68.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU029519; observed in push tube
    2Bt6—175 to 213 centimeters (68.9 to 83.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), 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 # MU029520; observed in push tube