IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Menfro
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008MO151008
  • User Pedon ID: 2008MO151008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0815108
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25815
  • 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: 38.6706944
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7581944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T45N
  • Range: R8W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1,673 feet West and 1,854 feet North from the South East corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO151—Osage
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO151—Osage County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38091-F7—Mokane East, 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 #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Menfro
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38091f7
  • 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—15

    23—218

    —15—

    —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

    6

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; moderate medium platy, and weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate coarse platy structure; friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005125; observed in push tube
    Bt1—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) broken face silt loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU005126; observed in push tube
    Bt2—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); 60 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005127; observed in push tube
    Bt3—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic, and weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 70 percent distinct 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; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005128; observed in push tube
    Bt4—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 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 medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 70 percent distinct 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; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005129; observed in push tube
    Bt5—81 to 127 centimeters (31.9 to 50.0 inches); 55 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 45 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on surfaces along pores and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005130; observed in push tube
    Bt6—127 to 168 centimeters (50.0 to 66.1 inches); 65 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on surfaces along pores and 35 percent prominent 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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 and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU005131; observed in push tube
    Bt7—168 to 218 centimeters (66.1 to 85.8 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 12 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on surfaces along pores; 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 black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # MU005132; observed in push tube