IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007MO219033
  • User Pedon ID: 2007MO219033
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0721933
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25782
  • 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: 38.6258056
  • Std. Longitude: -91.0199722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T45N
  • Range: R1W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 6 feet West and 2,297 feet North from the South West 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: 38091-F1—Marthasville, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Keith Knelle, John Horton, 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 #: 33
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • 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: 12/13/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091f1se
  • 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

    0—8

    8—203

    —8—

    —195—
    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

    9

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    177.1

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    160

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 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 vesicular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004879; observed in push tube
    Bt1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), 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 # MU004880; observed in push tube
    Bt2—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004881; observed in push tube
    Bt3—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 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 # MU004882; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) 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 distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent prominent 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; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 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 # MU004884; observed in push tube
    2Bt6—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), 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 # MU004885; observed in push tube
    2Bt7—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), 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; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # MU004886; observed in push tube