IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Feliciana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03KY-145-001
  • User Pedon ID: 03KY-145-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 03KY-145-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 03KY-145-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46347
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 36.9735832
  • Std. Longitude: -88.7828903
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: McCracken County, KY; 2.5 miles east of Lovelaceville at the end of Trice Road. In the Conservation Reserve Program.
  • Map Unit: FeB—Feliciana silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY145—McCracken
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY602—Ballard and McCracken Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36088-H7—Lovelaceville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.E. McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Feliciana
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Feliciana
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LOAR10

    SOHA

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Sorghum halepense

    tall fescue

    Johnsongrass

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    4

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    128

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    175

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0093
    Bt1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0094
    Bt2—33 to 71 centimeters (13.0 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam, silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on surfaces along pores; 2 percent prominent black (N 2.5/) manganese coatings infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0095
    Bt3—71 to 122 centimeters (28.0 to 48.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on surfaces along pores; 1 percent prominent black (N 2.5/) manganese coatings infused into matrix along faces of peds and 5 percent prominent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, and light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, clay depletions infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0096
    Bt4—122 to 165 centimeters (48.0 to 65.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.0 fine roots; 10 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, clay depletions infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0097
    BC—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, clay depletions infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # KY0098