IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO073001
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO073001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0807301
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25811
  • 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: 38.7021944
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3876944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO073—Gasconade
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO073—Gasconade County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-F4—Hermann, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Butler
  • 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 #: 301
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/17/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091f4
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop vines
  • 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—20

    20—224

    —20—

    —204—
    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

    15

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    —

    179.8

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    315

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005095; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005096; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); 95 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 5 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005097; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); 95 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 5 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 2 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005098; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—66 to 102 centimeters (26.0 to 40.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 2 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005099; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—102 to 137 centimeters (40.2 to 53.9 inches); 90 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 2 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, worm casts and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, worm casts; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005100; observed in pit, small
    Bt5—137 to 183 centimeters (53.9 to 72.0 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 3 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, silt coats; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005101; observed in pit, small
    Bt6—183 to 224 centimeters (72.0 to 88.2 inches); 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; weak coarse platy, and weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU005102; observed in pit, small