IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MENFRO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO031020
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO031020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0803120
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25793
  • 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: 37.3221111
  • Std. Longitude: -89.7256111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO031—Cape Girardeau
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO609—Cape Girardeau, Mississippi and Scott Counties, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37089-C6—Gordonville, 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 #: 20
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MENFRO
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/5/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • 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: 6/5/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 37089c6
  • 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
    • 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

    0—20

    20—213

    58—213

    —20—

    —193—

    —155—
    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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    67.7

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    280

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004959; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004960; observed in push tube
    Bt2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004961; observed in push tube
    Bt3—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004962; observed in push tube
    Bt4—79 to 124 centimeters (31.1 to 48.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 70 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004963; observed in push tube
    Bt5—124 to 170 centimeters (48.8 to 66.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 10.0 medium tubular and 10.0 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 light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004964; observed in push tube
    2Bt6—170 to 196 centimeters (66.9 to 77.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU004965; observed in push tube
    2Bt7—196 to 213 centimeters (77.2 to 83.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU004966; observed in push tube