IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO219030
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO219030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0721930
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25780
  • 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: 38.5939167
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9719444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T44N
  • Range: R1W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 2,332 feet West and 1,634 feet North from the South East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO219—Warren
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO603—Montgomery and Warren Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38090-E8—Washington East, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Knelle, John Horton, Dennis Meinert
  • 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 #: 30
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 13 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/2007
  • 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: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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: 12/13/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38090e8nw
  • 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 gully
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—13

    13—208

    94—

    —13—

    —195—

    —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

    6

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    199.9

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 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; 3.0 fine tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004865; observed in push tube
    Bt1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 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 # MU004866; observed in push tube
    Bt2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); 85 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 15 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 70 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), 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 and 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 # MU004867; observed in push tube
    Bt3—46 to 94 centimeters (18.1 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 70 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004868; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004869; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—124 to 155 centimeters (48.8 to 61.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004870; observed in push tube
    2Bt6—155 to 208 centimeters (61.0 to 81.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 medium tubular and 10.0 fine tubular and 10.0 coarse tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments. Lab sample # MU004871; observed in push tube