IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wernock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00KY-001-005
  • User Pedon ID: 00KY-001-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 00KY-001-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46338
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Adair County, KY; about 5 miles southeast of Columbia, Kentucky; 0.5 mile east of KY Hwy 55 and 0.25 miles north of Morrison road; on the Fletcher (older) farm, in a pasture, 200 feet east of farm, road, 100 feet west of old house.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY001—Adair
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY001—Adair County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Jenkins, Bill Craddock, Harry Evans, and Jerry Richardson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wernock
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wernock
  • Classificaton Date - 11/29/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Bedrock: weakly coherent siltstone, unspecified at 61cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/29/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    61 - 74

    74 -

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    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
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    4

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0020
    Bt1—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0021
    Bt2—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silty clay loam; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 15 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 20 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0022
    Cr—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); bedrock; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # KY0023
    R—74 centimeters (29.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY0024